All flam synonyms

noun flam

• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
• graft — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
• complicity — Complicity is involvement with other people in an illegal activity or plan.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
• skunk — a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V -shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
• whitewash — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
• connivance — Connivance is a willingness to allow or assist something to happen even though you know it is wrong.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• cahoots — partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• guilt — the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt.
• gyp — a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.
• racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• scheme — a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
• intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
• guiltiness — having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
• bunco — a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
• diddling — Present participle of diddle.
• bill of goods — a list of items for sale, consignment, shipment, etc
• con game — a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler; a shortened form of confidence game
• double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• shell game — a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
• bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.