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- pronunciation:
- dih
sit
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the act or practice of misleading, tricking, or cheating.
- synonyms:
- chicanery, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, humbug, prevarication, trickery
- similar words:
- bluff, double-dealing, forgery, hanky-panky, hoax, hocus-pocus, hypocrisy, monkey business, razzle-dazzle, swindle
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| definition 2: |
a means of misleading, tricking, or cheating; trick; stratagem.
- synonyms:
- artifice, deception, fraud, humbug, lie, prevarication, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery
- similar words:
- fake, falsehood, feint, flimflam, forgery, hanky-panky, hoax, hocus-pocus, imposture, mendacity, monkey business, razzle-dazzle, sham, swindle, Trojan horse, wile
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| definition 3: |
the quality of being misleading and deceptive; falseness.
- synonyms:
- deceptiveness, dishonesty, falseness, fraudulence, underhandedness, untruthfulness
- similar words:
- duplicity, mendacity
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| related words: |
caper, chicanery, craft, cunning, pretense, treachery |
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