n. |
[1] |
deception
,
trickery
,
cheating
,
sharp practice
,
chicanery
,
deceit
,
swindling
,
double-dealing
,
duplicity
,
artifice
,
craft
,
guile
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
treachery
,
(Colloq) monkey business
,
funny business
,
hanky-panky
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[2] |
trick
,
imposter
,
impostor
,
hoax
,
swindle
,
pretender
,
fake
,
deception
,
cheat
,
faker
,
sham
,
wile
,
stratagem
,
shammer
,
pseudo
,
dodge
,
bilk
,
pseud
,
role player
,
ruse
,
sham
,
fake
,
subterfuge
,
(Colloq) flimflam
,
(Slang) gyp
,
rip-off
,
scam
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[3] |
deceiver
,
fraudulence
,
dupery
,
trickster
,
cheat(er)
,
hoax
,
humbug
,
impostor
,
swindler
,
put-on
,
charlatan
,
humbug
,
sharper
,
shark
,
bilk(er)
,
quack
,
mountebank
,
fake(r)
,
pretender
,
bluff(er)
,
confidence man
,
inveigler
,
defrauder
,
scoundrel
,
rogue
,
(Archaic) knave
,
(Colloq) con man/artist
,
phoney/(US) phony
,
flimflam artist
,
flimflammer
,
(US/Canadian) four-flusher
,
(Slang) (US) barracuda
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