All deceptiveness synonyms

noun deceptiveness

• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.
• solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
• preconception — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
• illogicality — illogic.
• prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• notion — a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• inexact — not exact; not strictly precise or accurate.
• invalidity — invalidism.
• canard — A canard is an idea or a piece of information that is false, especially one that is spread deliberately in order to harm someone or their work.
• disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
• cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• infidelity — marital disloyalty; adultery.
• perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
• unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
• tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
• perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
• unreality — lack of reality; quality of being unreal: the unreality of dreams.
• shuffle — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
• hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
• phoniness — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• unreliability — not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
• inaccurate — not accurate; incorrect or untrue.
• illusoriness — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
• nonrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• storey — story2 .
• misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
• misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
• colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
• snow job — an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
• head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
• ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
• optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• double entendre — a double meaning.
• double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
• song and dance — a story or statement, especially an untrue or misleading one designed to evade the matter at hand: Every time he's late, he gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.