All gold brick synonyms

noun gold brick

• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• forgery — the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
• dupe — duplicate.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• 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.
• sleight — skill; dexterity.
• faker — anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit: This diamond necklace is a fake.
• imitation — a result or product of imitating.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• put-on — an act or instance of putting someone on.
• pretender — a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
• spoof — a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• pseudo — not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; sham.
• reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
• make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
• charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
• four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
• bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
• double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• take in — the act of taking.