Deceit


Synonyms for deceit
noun practice of misleading

fraud
deception
trickery
duplicity
hypocrisy
dishonesty
chicanery
treachery
double-dealing

imposition
guile
craft
cheating
slyness
artifice
craftiness
deceitfulness
pretense

ambidexterity
cunning
dirty pool
smoke and mirrors
two-timing
dissemblance
two-facedness
underhandedness
fraudulence

chicane
dissimulation
ambidextrousness
trapping
cozening
defrauding
dirty dealing
entrapping
overreaching

Antonyms for deceit

fairness
honesty
frankness
truthfulness

sincerity
reality
uprightness
openness

trustworthiness
truth
forthrightness
artlessness

Synonyms
noun particular type of trick, misleading

chicanery
deception
duplicity
hoax
fraud
subterfuge
misrepresentation
blind
trick

humbug
sellout
cheat
shift
artifice
feint
flimflam
ruse
sell

sham
fake
stratagem
wile
spoof
swindle
pretense
whitewash
imposture

dirty work
smoke and mirrors
snow job
soft soap
sweet talk
fraudulence
crocodile tears
dirty trick

Antonyms

honesty
truthfulness
frankness

reality
uprightness
forthrightness

openness
trustworthiness
truth

Other adjectives related to deceit

ad captandum
barefaced
calophantic
contraband
deceitful
deceptive
disguised
factitious
fraudulent
illicit
make-believe
pawky
prestigious
scamped
sophisticated
tinsel
unconscionable
untrue

adulterated
bastard
catchpenny
counterfeit
deceived
delusive
double-dealing
fair-weather
fucatory
illusive
meretricious
pinchbeck
pretended
sham
spurious
tricky
unscrupulous
wildcat

artificial
bogus
catchy
covinous
deceiving
delusory
elusive
faithless
ill-gotten
illusory
mock
predatory
pseudo
simulated
supposititious
trumped-up
unsound

babyshed
brummagem
colorable
cunning
deceptious
devious
ersatz
feigned
illegitimate
insidious
parlous
prestigiatory
rotten at the core
so-called
surreptitious
two-faced
unsupported by evidence

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