Meaning | The act of deceiving / deceiving. |
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Synonyms | deception, 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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