All deception synonyms

noun deception

• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
• hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
• wrinkle — an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
• crock — A crock is a clay pot or jar.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• trap — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
• malarkey — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• trickiness — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.