English > deception: 3 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A misleading falsehood. |
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| Synonyms | misrepresentation, deceit |
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| Narrower | bill of goods | communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept / accept something untrue or undesirable |
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| evasion, equivocation | A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth |
| exaggeration, overstatement, magnification | making to seem more important than it really is |
| facade, window dressing | A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant |
| fraudulence, duplicity | A fraudulent or duplicitous representation |
| half-truth | A partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead |
| humbug, snake oil | communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive |
| pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling | pretending with intention to deceive / deceive |
| snow job | A long / long and elaborate misrepresentation |
| subterfuge, blind | Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity |
| trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery | verbal / verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way |
| Broader | falsehood, falsity, untruth | A false statement |
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| Spanish | decepción, engaño, fraude, impostura, mentira, tergiversación |
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| Catalan | engany, farsa, frau, mentida |
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| Verbs | deceive | be false to |
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English > deception: 3 senses > noun 2, act| Meaning | The act of deceiving / deceiving. |
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| Synonyms | deceit, dissembling, dissimulation |
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| Narrower | bluff, four flush | The act of bluffing in poker |
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| cheat, cheating | A deception for profit to yourself |
| delusion, illusion, head game | The act of deluding |
| duplicity, double-dealing | Acting in bad faith |
| fakery | The act of faking / faking (or the product of faking / faking) |
| imposture, impersonation | pretending to be another person |
| indirection | deceitful action that is not straightforward |
| obscurantism | A deliberate act intended to make something obscure |
| pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning | The act of giving a false / false / false appearance |
| take-in | The act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone |
| trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
| Broader | falsification, misrepresentation | A willful perversion of facts |
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| Spanish | disimulación, engaño, fingimiento, fraude |
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| Catalan | dissimulació, engany, fingiment |
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| Verbs | deceive | cause someone to believe an untruth |
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| deceive | be false to |
