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Betrayal
Perfidy
Trechery
- Perfidy: Deliberate breach of faith; calculated violation of trust; treachery
- Trechery: Willful betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidy
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Invalid
Apocryphal
Erroneous
Fallacious
Misapprehension
Paralogism
Pretension
Spurious
- Apocryphal: Of questionable authorship or authenticity
- Erroneous: Containing or derived from error; mistaken
- Fallacious: Containing or based on a fallacy (unsound or invalid reasoning); Tending to mislead; deceptive
- Misapprehension: an understanding of something that is not correct
- Paralogism: any invalid argument or conclusion
- Pretension: a false or unsupportable claim, esp to merit, worth, or importance; a specious or unfounded allegation; pretext
- Spurious: Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine; false; plausible but false; intended to deceive
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False Self-representation
Affected
Dissemble
Dissimulate
Humbug
Mannered
Ostensible
Palter
Pose
Pretension
Stilted
- Affected: Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- Dissemble: To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance; to conceal (one's real motives, emotions, etc.) by pretence (pretending; feigning)
- Dissimulate: to disguise (one's intentions, for example) under a feigned appearance; To conceal one's true feelings or intentions
- Humbug: Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud; A person who claims to be other than what he or she is; an impostor
- Mannered: Artificial or affected
- Ostensible: apparent; seeming; pretended
- Palter: To talk or act insincerely or misleadingly; equivocate
- Pose: To represent oneself falsely; pretend to be other than what one is
- Pretension: a false or unsupportable claim, esp to merit, worth, or importance; a specious or unfounded allegation; pretext
- Stilted: artificially formal ; (of speech, writing, etc.) formal, pompous, or bombastic
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Fake
Counterfeit
Ersatz
Feigned
Fictitious
Forged
Sham
- Counterfeit: made in imitation of something genuine with the intent to deceive or defraud; forged
- Ersatz: Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial
- Feigned: Not real; pretended; Made-up; fictitious
- Fictitious: Of, relating to, or characterized by fiction; imaginary; Not genuinely believed or felt; sham
- Forged: reproduced fraudulently
- Sham: Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine; a spurious imitation.
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Evade the Truth
Equivocate
Parry
Pretext
Prevaricate
Quibble
Subterfuge
Tergiversate
- Equivocate: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- Parry: a skillful evasion, as of a question
- Pretext: An ostensible or professed purpose; an excuse; An effort or strategy intended to conceal something; a fictitious reason given in order to conceal the real one
- Prevaricate: To stray from or evade the truth; equivocate; to speak or act falsely or evasively with intent to deceive
- Quibble: To evade the truth or importance of an issue by raising trivial distinctions and objections; To find fault or criticize for petty reasons; cavil
- Subterfuge: a stratagem employed to conceal something, evade an argument, etc.; something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- Tergiversate: To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate; to change sides or loyalties; apostatize
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Lie
Canard
Mendacity
Perjure
- Canard: An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story
- Mendacious/mendacity: Lying; untruthful/ A lie; a falsehood
- Perjure: To make (oneself) guilty of perjury by deliberately testifying falsely under oath.
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Attractively deceptive
Meretricious
Sophistic
Specious
Spurious
- Meretricious: Plausible but false or insincere; specious; based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- Sophistic: Apparently sound but really fallacious; specious; plausible but misleading
- Specious: Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious; deceptively attractive
- Spurious: Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine; false; plausible but false; intended to deceive
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Skillful Deciet
Artifice
Casuistry
Guile
Knavish
Legerdemain
Overreach
Stratagem
- Artifice: crafty or subtle deception; a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
- Casuistry: The use of clever but unsound reasoning, esp. in relation to moral questions; sophistry
- Guile: Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit; trick or stratagem
- Knavish: marked by skill in deception
- Legerdemain: A show of skill or deceitful cleverness; cunning deception or trickery
- Overreach: To get the better of, especially by deceitful cleverness; outwit.
- Stratagem: A military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy; A clever, often underhanded scheme for achieving an objective
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Entrap
Conniving
Insidious
Wile
- Conniving: acting in a dishonest way: using or controlling other people for selfish reasons; to plot together, esp secretly; conspire; to give assent or encouragement (to the commission of a wrong)
- Insidious: causing harm in a way that is gradual or not easily noticed; intended to entrap
- Wile: A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare
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Malicious Lie
Belie
Calumny
- Belie: To give a false representation to; misrepresent; To show to be false; contradict
- Calumny: A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation
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To deceive
Beguile
Chicanery
Contrivance
Cozen
Cozenage
Delude
Duplicity
Fraudulent
Hoodwink
Hornswoggle
Illusory
- Beguile: To deceive by guile; delude; To distract the attention of; divert; To amuse or charm; delight
- Chicanery: actions or statements that trick people into believing something that is not true: deception or trickery
- Contrivance: an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- Cozen: To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive; To obtain by deceit or persuasion.
- Cozenage: a fraudulent business scheme
- Delude: To deceive the mind or judgment of; be false to; be dishonest with
- Duplicity: Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech
- Fraudulent: Engaging in fraud; deceitful.
- Hoodwink: To take in by deceptive means; deceive.
- Hornswoggle: To bamboozle; deceive
- Illusory: Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive
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To cheat
Bilk
Bunco
Chisel
Chizz
Cozen
Cozenage
Defraud
Diddle
Dupe
Gyp
Mulct
Swindle
Wangle
- Bilk: To defraud, cheat, or swindle
- Bunco: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property; deprive of by deceit
- Chisel: To cheat or swindle; to obtain by deception
- Chizz: To chizz someone is to cheat or swindle them.
- Cozen: To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive; To obtain by deceit or persuasion.
- Cozenage: a fraudulent business scheme
- Defraud: to take away or withhold money, rights, property, etc., from (a person) by fraud; cheat; swindle
- Diddle: Slang To cheat; swindle
- Dupe: a person who is tricked or swindled
- Gyp: To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle
- Mulct: (Law) to cheat or defraud; To acquire by trickery or deception; To impose a fine on
- Swindle: To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property
- Wangle: to use devious or illicit methods to get or achieve (something) for (oneself or another)
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