| NOUN | act | dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on | something intended to deceive |
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| Meaning | Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. | |
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| Synonyms | fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on | |
| Narrower | goldbrick | Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless |
| Broader | trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
| Spanish | bulo, camelo, engañifa, engaño, filfa, fraude, mistificación, pastrana, patraña, trampa | |
| Catalan | fraudulència, innocentada, jugada, mistificació, trampa, truc | |
| Verbs | dupe | fool or hoax |
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