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All smoke and mirrors synonyms

smoke and mirrors
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noun smoke and mirrors

  • chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
  • chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
  • gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
  • hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
  • ambidextrousness — The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
  • deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
  • fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
  • dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
  • flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
  • hosing — an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
  • hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
  • dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
  • mummery — the performance of mummers.
  • jugglery — the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.
  • magic word — Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
  • dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
  • fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • conjuration — a magic spell; incantation
  • occultism — belief in the existence of secret, mysterious, or supernatural agencies.
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