deception
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Sense: Noun: practice of deceiving
Synonyms:
deceit Collocations, trickery, double-dealing, deceitfulness, dishonesty, fraud Collocations, craftiness, treachery, cunning Collocations, cheating, misleading Collocations, guile, artifice, lying Collocations, lies, crookedness, duplicity, craft Collocations, skullduggery, skulduggery, equivocation, chicanery, prevarication, imposture, fakery, subterfuge, mendacity, bamboozlement, dupery, trickiness, beguilement, duplicitousness, sleight of hand, fraudulence, cozenage
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Sense: Noun: deceitful act
Synonyms:
hoax Collocations, swindle Collocations, fraud Collocations, con Collocations , trick Collocations, lie Collocations, fake Collocations, façade, feint, masquerade, cheat Collocations, snow job , imposture, confidence trick, con trick , con job
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