All disinform synonyms

verb disinform

• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• dupe — duplicate.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• misguide — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• victimize — to make a victim of.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
• 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.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• outfox — to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
• snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• beguile — If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
• betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• juggle — to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.
• cozen — to cheat or trick (someone)
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• signify — to make known by signs, speech, or action.
• misstate — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
• misdirect — to direct or address wrongly or incorrectly: to misdirect a person; to misdirect a letter.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• rook — one of two pieces of the same color that may be moved any number of unobstructed squares horizontally or vertically; castle.
• screw — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
• outwit — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
• trap — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
• 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).
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• throw — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• victimise — to make a victim of.
• double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
• sucker — a person or thing that sucks.
• take in — the act of taking.
• caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
• do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
• illude — to deceive or trick.
• impose on — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
• mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.