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Verb
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
Present participle for to learn by heart, or commit to memory
(
rare
)
Present participle for to study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
Present participle for to navigate or pilot a vehicle or vessel
Present participle for to cajole or convince someone with flattery
Present participle for to misrepresent something, typically to deceive
Present participle for to acquire new information or skill
Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive
Present participle for study
Present participle for to acquire knowledge on an issue
Present participle for to (excessively) boast about one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
Noun
An attempt to persuade a person using flattery or deception
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
cheating
defrauding
swindling
fleecing
stiffing
bilking
diddling
suckering
cozening
stinging
hustling
skinning
flimflamming
rooking
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
bleeding
doing
shortchanging
screwing
fiddling
hosing
sticking
mulcting
squeezing
shorting
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
gaffing
skunking
reaming
chousing
thimblerigging
euchring
tricking
plucking
deceiving
nobbling
duping
beating
bamboozling
hoodwinking
fooling
scamming
misleading
gulling
exploiting
finagling
hoaxing
milking
deluding
embezzling
gazumping
chicaning
buncoing
swizzling
hornswoggling
swizzing
inveigling
entrapping
wheedling
kidding
humbugging
cajoling
coaxing
luring
buttying
ripping off
shaking down
doing in
double-crossing
taking advantage of
taking for a ride
putting one over on
stringing along
pulling a fast one on
taking to the cleaners
selling a pup
selling a pup to
doing the dirty on
sweet-talking
pulling a fast one
screwing over
beguiling
snookering
taking in
having
bluffing
burning
snowing
misguiding
misinforming
spoofing
buffaloing
juggling
gammoning
faking out
sucking in
catching
having on
shafting
outwitting
pulling a swifty on
betraying
leading up the garden path
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
doing a number on
leading on
pulling one's leg
overreaching
clipping
sandbagging
outfoxing
illuding
gouging
robbing
outmaneuvering
US
roping in
leading down the garden path
outmanoeuvring
UK
selling
ensnaring
stealing
leading astray
giving someone a bum steer
overcharging
foxing
selling down the river
stitching up
befooling
outsmarting
rushing
goldbricking
making a fool of
short-changing
selling a bill of goods to
circumventing
baiting
jiving
outslicking
manipulating
outdoing
seducing
setting up
fudging
outthinking
defeating
topping
taking
disinforming
doing out of
imposing on
outguessing
double-dealing
baffling
jockeying
lying to
juking
putting on
mousetrapping
getting the better of
soaking
extorting
outjockeying
misdirecting
shucking
outplaying
prevaricating
misstating
crossing
lying
stabbing in the back
selling out
balking
US
faking
jerking around
misrepresenting
trapping
running a game on
outgeneralling
outgeneraling
perverting
capping
beating out of
bewildering
jipping
worsting
confusing
stealing a march on
throwing off the scent
putting on the wrong track
figuring out
baulking
UK
leading up garden path
wringing
plundering
trimming
hooking
framing
thwarting
pilfering
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
playing
using
disappointing
blackmailing
catching out
lulling
selling a bill of goods
taking to cleaners
besting
wangling
backstabbing
outperforming
decoying
pulling
fabricating
distorting
propagandizing
US
sucking dry
gipping
two-timing
propagandising
UK
pulling fast one
putting one over
four-flushing
playing for a sucker
doing someone in the eye
covering up
preying on
double dealing
fixing
running rings round
depriving
putting on an act
putting on false front
pulling strings
playing games
making rings round
sending on a wild goose chase
putting up smoke screen
giving wrong information to
wrong steering
playing trick on
weaseling
US
ducking
dodging
weaselling
UK
frauding
despoiling
jiggling
heisting
filching
copping out
beating around the bush
worming one's way out of
slipping out
bending the rules
stacking the cards
stretching the rules
pulling something funny
hitting below the belt
penalising
UK
punishing
forfeiting
penalizing
US
fining
extracting
pigeoning
surcharging
ruining
frustrating
foiling
grifting
shamming
stumping
blagging
impoverishing
pauperizing
slipping something over on
finessing
pulling in
bunking
playing games with
wresting
wrenching
expelling
forcing
strong-arming
putting the screws to
sucking the life out of
enmeshing
entangling
falsifying
throwing
psyching out
playing away
crossing up
welshing
playing dirty
playing a trick on
playing joke on
taking for ride
swaying
contriving
making a sucker of
play-acting
charging too much
surpassing
excelling
doing number on
impressing
dallying
trifling
pulling wool over
going one better than
bleeding dry
suckering into
pulling someone's leg
toying
wantoning
flamming
playing for a fool
giving the wrong impression
nicking
overtaxing
padding
conning out of
handing a line
outclassing
outflanking
biasing
US
biassing
UK
hocus-pocusing
failing
stealing someone blind
rooking out of
gaslighting
putting someone up to something
letting down
tearing from
bleeding someone of something
breaking faith with
splitting
playing someone false
trifling with
toying with
dallying with
playing with
cribbing
belirting
roguing
lirting
blenching
rogueing
making use of
playing fast and loose with
giving the runaround
going back on
stepping out
sending on a wild-goose chase
enticing
stage-managing
pulling wires
twisting around your little finger
taking out
persuading
breaking the rules
giving bum steer
tempting
intimidating
molesting
making a monkey of
making somebody look an idiot
making a monkey out of
harassing
hounding
pressuring
ingratiating
pressing
rigging
alluring
terrorizing
US
attacking
soliciting
inducing
terrorising
UK
doctoring
talking into
planting
cooking
managing
picking on
snaring
wiling
steering
distracting
ensorcelling
coming on
tolling
touting
shilling
fascinating
more ❯
“Gray is also being charged with developing a scheme to
con
the couple out of their retirement fund.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
deceiving
tricking
fooling
duping
misleading
hoodwinking
deluding
hoaxing
bamboozling
beguiling
bluffing
misguiding
cozening
gulling
misinforming
suckering
snookering
having
gaffing
humbugging
hornswoggling
snowing
spoofing
gammoning
buffaloing
juggling
burning
catching
taking in
having on
stringing along
faking out
sucking in
cheating
swindling
defrauding
bilking
stiffing
fleecing
diddling
stinging
rooking
doing
flimflamming
victimizing
US
hustling
skinning
screwing
fiddling
bleeding
shortchanging
mulcting
hosing
squeezing
sticking
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
shorting
euchring
reaming
skunking
chousing
thimblerigging
plucking
nobbling
beating
victimising
UK
ripping off
shaking down
doing in
more ❯
“I
con
him into thinking I've got connections with a fixer.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to learn by heart, or commit to memory
learning
memorising
UK
memorizing
US
studying
remembering
committing to memory
retaining
learning by heart
learning by rote
becoming word-perfect in
getting off pat
impressing on the memory
recalling
recollecting
storing
learning off
getting by heart
nailing down
knowing by heart
fixing in the mind
absorbing
minding
keeping in mind
bearing in mind
keeping in one's memory
calling to mind
thinking of
succeeding in remembering
mastering
cramming
knowing
reminding
keeping forever
learning word for word
learning off by heart
learning verbatim
having down pat
getting off by heart
having off pat
learning parrot-fashion
getting something word-perfect
“And to
con
by rote is to commit to memory by an operation of mind similar to the turning of a wheel.”
Verb
▲
(
rare
)
Present participle for to study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of
inspecting
examining
scrutinising
UK
scrutinizing
US
scanning
surveying
reviewing
viewing
auditing
overlooking
overseeing
checking out
studying
checking
looking over
perusing
eyeballing
poring over
analyzing
US
vetting
analysing
UK
scoping
investigating
looking at
checking over
eyeing
eying
casing
assessing
appraising
reading
exploring
searching
probing
going over
taking stock of
giving the once-over
going over with a fine-tooth comb
observing
watching
contemplating
canvassing
considering
recceing
skimming
browsing
evaluating
working over
dipping into
skimming through
running your eye over
going through
giving something a going-over
researching
sweeping
clocking
regarding
sifting
dissecting
prospecting
surfing
inquiring
enquiring
UK
assaying
reconnoitering
US
glancing over
supervising
staring at
gazing at
reconnoitring
UK
superintending
getting a load of
looking into
enquiring into
sizing up
looking through
inquiring into
taking a dekko at
leafing through
examining closely
putting under a microscope
flicking through
taking a look at
casting an eye over
weighing up
wading through
thumbing through
giving something a once-over
glancing through
subjecting to an examination
browsing through
adjudicating
judging
scouring
raking
verifying
following
glassing
taking stock
digging into
delving into
checking into
flipping through
referring to
devouring
burying oneself in
ploughing through
flashing
rumbling
looking
riffling
riffing
beholding
seeing
estimating
running over
glancing at
running through
triangulating
gaging
US
summarising
UK
sizing
summarizing
US
gauging
UK
graphing
charting
plotting
valuating
screening
having a look-see
taking a gander
giving the once over
looking upon
mapping out
staking out
scoping out
checking up
eyeing up
parsing
looking up and down
testing
winnowing
underseeing
scouting
questioning
noticing
monitoring
searching into
looking see
looking at carefully
sifting through
interrogating
catechizing
giving something a look-see
kicking the tires
subjecting to an inspection
weighing
digging
combing
penetrating
perlustrating
piercing
candling
staring
pegging
smoking
examining carefully
burning up
taking the measure of
going into
pondering
checking up on
sussing out
chewing over
anatomizing
excogitating
delving
interpreting
frisking
querying
thinking through
making enquiries into
mulling over
sounding out
thinking about
spying
following up
valuing
nosing around
conducting investigations into
thinking over
diving into
brooding over
brainstorming
deconstructing
trying to get to the bottom of
seeking
breaking down
summing up
poking around
conducting an enquiry into
prying into
conducting an investigation into
probing into
rating
making a survey of
discussing
figuring
poking
enquiring about
reconning
taking a look
making enquiries about
cutting
pursuing
meditating
cogitating
criticizing
US
comparing
making inquiry
finding out
picking apart
feeling out
measuring
picking at
determining
criticising
UK
scouting out
sorting through
sorting out
perpending
searching for
running down
cross-examining
inquiring about
looking around
going through with a fine-tooth comb
making a recce of
thinking out
calculating
boning up
tackling
having a look
deliberating
fathoming
experimenting
bugging
tapping
setting
resolving
guesstimating
kicking around
proving
consulting
counting
finding out about
nitpicking
asking questions about
separating
dividing
patrolling
looking something over
listening in
reading into
deliberating on
balancing
spying out
doing research
reading up on
looking for
asking questions of
doing research into
making inquiries about
putting to the test
putting questions to
making a reconnaissance of
looking up
seeing how the land lies
searching the evidence concerning
sifting the evidence concerning
making enquiries
having a look at
conducting an enquiry
diving in
making an observation of
taking apart
casing the joint
following a line of investigation
taking a shufti round
finding out the lie of the land
seeking an answer
looking round
reading through
reflecting
counting your blessings
asking about
double-checking
palpating
censoring
redacting
checking something out
taking inventory
muckraking
underseeking
wiretapping
contextualizing
US
contextualising
UK
selecting
perceiving
discerning
getting down to brass tacks
stagging
diagnosing
grading
plunging
minding
thinking
plugging
cramming
coaching
learning
tutoring
grinding
refreshing
tracking
passing under review
questing
esteeming
treating
passing through
dissolving
talking about
identifying
turning
debating
revolving
ruminating
testing the waters
establishing
quartering
spot-checking
investigating it
trying
spying on
critiquing
poring
reading over
looking on
thinking of
certifying
noting
confirming
ascertaining
wrestling with
entertaining
conducting research into
taking a look at it
casting your eye over
opening up
snooping
memorizing
US
decomposing
memorising
UK
decompounding
digging deeper
digging deep
cracking the books
polishing up
burning the midnight oil
pulling an all-nighter
learning the ropes
elucubrating
applying oneself
burning midnight oil
hitting the books
reading up
picking over
prying
unpacking
telling
wading into
leaving no stone unturned
getting the lie of the land
keeping an eye out
looking out
laying bare
turning over
ensuring
quizzing
correcting
reflecting on
having a look around
reading intently
hunting
skirring
delving in
hunting through
leaving no stone unturned in
keeping under surveillance
keeping tabs
consulting the archives
looking closely
classing
panning
drilling
mining
dowsing
having a tour of
going on a tour of
having a look round
touring
testing out
trying out
conducting a survey of
giving opinion
unraveling
US
comprehending
unravelling
UK
classifying
keeping an eye on
giving the eagle eye
playing around with
making inquiries
doing tests
making sure of
keeping account
finding fault
picking holes
giving an opinion
fanning
passing judgment on
commenting upon
understanding
grasping
sounding
lucubrating
going after
thumbing
shaking down
knowing
reporting on
estimating the value of
carrying out a valuation of
leafing
computing
flipping
patting down
ranking
spotting
plumbing
numbering
glancing
enumerating
regulating
reconsidering
ciphering
summing
budgeting
setting a figure
calculating roughly
accounting for
tracking down
rustling up
running reconnaissance
making a reconnaissance
scouting around
looking out for
setting eyes on
taking in
reexamining
overhauling
debugging
turning the pages
speed-reading
getting the cream
having a quick look at
going once over lightly
hitting the high spots
brushing over
reading quickly
reading swiftly
getting to the bottom of
contrasting
pricing
taking soundings
adjudging
re-examining
juxtaposing
deeming
differentiating
collating
stripping down
giving something a check-up
correlating
figuring out
setting at
figuring in
taking account of
having one's number
paralleling
competing
parallelling
balancing the differences between
setting side by side
setting against
standing the pace
measuring the differences between
weighing the differences between
standing the test
stacking up against
weighing against another
weighing against
matching
matching up
opposing
putting side by side
confronting
measuring up
hanging
segregating
placing in juxtaposition
referring
searching through
seeking information from
turning to
searching in
looking something up in
getting back to
chasing up
more ❯
“The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and
conned
the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
fibbing
prevaricating
fabricating
lying
falsifying
equivocating
misrepresenting
faking
inventing
paltering
deceiving
exaggerating
concocting
pretending
dissembling
dissimulating
jiving
feigning
perjuring
promoting
kidding
planting
shoveling
US
shovelling
UK
making up
telling stories
trumping up
stretching the truth
telling untruths
telling a lie
departing from the truth
inventing a story
making up a story
forswearing oneself
not telling the truth
telling a terminological inexactitude
telling a fib
creating fiction
speaking with forked tongue
telling a little white lie
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
pulling someone's leg
misleading
deluding
bluffing
hoodwinking
misinforming
hoaxing
misspeaking
misstating
misguiding
beguiling
duping
tricking
bulling
fudging
overdrawing
perverting
snowing
misinstructing
gaslighting
distorting
forswearing
telling a falsehood
telling an untruth
stringing along
concocting a story
faking it
having on
saying something untrue
perjuring oneself
putting on the wrong track
breaking promise
committing perjury
bearing false witness
throwing off the scent
putting up a front
putting on
sending on a wild goose chase
leading astray
BSing
telling a white lie
lacking candor
giving the wrong impression
forging
simulating
hatching
telling untruth
counterfeiting
creating out of thin air
coining
dreaming up
conjuring up
lying under oath
swearing falsely
devising
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to navigate or pilot a vehicle or vessel
steering
piloting
navigating
driving
helming
controlling
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
sailing
aviating
conducting
flying
coxswaining
coxing
captaining
skippering
directing
guiding
handling
circumnavigating
ferrying
cruising
charting
operating
plotting
boating
heading out
taking the helm of
shipping out
riding out
moving
jockeying
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cajole or convince someone with flattery
sweet-talking
cajoling
coaxing
wheedling
enticing
persuading
inveigling
beguiling
tempting
flattering
luring
blarneying
inducing
influencing
blandishing
alluring
urging
palavering
getting
pressing
worming
honeying
hooking
wangling
bartering
importuning
selling
softening
soft-soaping
talking into
buttering up
arguing into
prevailing upon
working on
arm-twisting
roping in
charming
seducing
prevailing on
winning over
getting round
talking
drawing
courting
wooing
encouraging
decoying
making
convincing
swaying
prodding
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
arguing
reasoning
coercing
smooth-talking
coming on
jawboning
twisting one's arm
teasing
talking someone into something
soothing
pestering
plaguing
bringing round
snowing
finagling
soaping
oiling
kowtowing
sweetening up
softening up
laying it on
spreading it on
attracting
inviting
instigating
inciting
soliciting
moving
provoking
getting around
ingratiating
getting next to
jollying
working over
bantering
tantalizing
US
captivating
stroking
tantalising
UK
wiling
flattering into
whetting
betraying
baiting
leading on
actuating
sucking in
bringing around
motivating
squeezing
bringing
coaxing into
inspiring
exerting influence on
activating
wheedling into
triggering
putting someone up to something
bulldozing
converting
drawing in
prompting
stimulating
steamrolling
impelling
prodding into
cajoling into
selling one on
appealing to
entrapping
tolling
batting eyes at
leading astray
turning on
dangling a carrot in front of
more ❯
Verb
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Present participle for to misrepresent something, typically to deceive
distorting
misrepresenting
biasing
US
biassing
UK
colouring
UK
coloring
US
skewing
bending
falsifying
slanting
disguising
misstating
misinterpreting
belying
misreporting
prejudicing
faking
misrelating
spinning
misquoting
lying
deceiving
misleading
snowing
misconstruing
whitewashing
quoting out of context
putting a spin on
taking out of context
trumping up
putting the wrong slant on
perverting
garbling
warping
fudging
twisting
cooking
manipulating
adulterating
embroidering
embellishing
promoting
exaggerating
equivocating
paltering
prevaricating
altering
forging
doctoring
counterfeiting
changing
fabricating
inventing
tampering with
debasing
massaging
corrupting
vitiating
fiddling
contravening
contorting
fixing
rigging
four-flushing
traversing
deaconing
glossing
fibbing
salting
faking it
framing up
dressing up
putting on an act
straining
parodying
travestying
concealing
overdrawing
stretching
overstating
puffing
dressing
angling
miscoloring
bearding
cloaking
pirating
confusing
masking
blarneying
mangling
cheesing
building up
giving a false idea of
covering up
giving a false account of
passing off
blowing smoke
interfering with
tinkering with
juggling
fiddling with
modifying
transforming
amending
muddling
obscuring
mistranslating
misrendering
meddling with
messing about with
misattributing
varnishing
airbrushing
putting words in someone's mouth
influencing
masquerading
magnifying
suppressing
padding
veiling
dissimulating
screening
hiding
affecting
quoting incorrectly
cooking the books
glossing over
doctoring up
jumbling
weighting
blurring
slurring
mutilating
mixing up
moulding
UK
shaping
molding
US
weighing
misarticulating
twisting around
tampering
quoting
twisting someone's words
dramatizing
US
enhancing
overdoing
hyperbolizing
finagling
flimflamming
diddling
poisoning
shuffling
trimming
rearranging
covering
giving a false impression of
romanticizing
US
dramatising
UK
romanticising
UK
shrouding
enshrouding
occulting
blanketing
curtaining
revamping
reworking
editing
revising
changing round
subverting
alloying
cutting
desecrating
elaborating on
making adjustments to
making changes to
making alterations to
blotting out
papering over
patching
performing magic
cooking up
touching up
varnishing over
pretending
giving a false picture of
making a pretense of
falsely representing
dissembling
downplaying
veneering
minimizing
US
bluffing
secreting
simulating
sugarcoating
extenuating
feigning
giving a false identity to
shamming
camouflaging
minimising
UK
keeping secret
hushing up
sweeping under the rug
soft-pedalling
putting on a front
putting up a smoke screen
soft-pedaling
de-emphasizing
keeping dark
putting up a front
sweeping under the carpet
putting on a false front
keeping quiet about
keeping a lid on
drawing a veil over
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to acquire new information or skill
learning
attaining
grasping
mastering
receiving
absorbing
acquiring
gaining
getting
imbibing
assimilating
comprehending
digesting
pursuing
calculating
noting
observing
perceiving
taking
determining
enrolling
picking up
reading
reviewing
swotting
understanding
acquiring a knowledge of
acquiring skill in
applying oneself to
apprenticing
becoming competent in
becoming expert in
becoming proficient in
becoming skilled at
cramming
familiarizing oneself with
familiarizing yourself with
gaining an understanding of
gathering
getting across
getting clued up about
getting the point of
gleaning
grinding
having lessons in
hitting the books
knowing backwards
knowing inside out
mugging up
perusing
preparing
reading up on
working at
becoming able
becoming versed
brushing up on
burning midnight oil
checking
cracking the books
drinking in
getting down pat
getting the hang of
getting the knack of
improving mind
majoring in
minoring in
poring over
soaking up
specializing in
taking course
taking in
training in
wading through
watching
larnin
studying
lucubrating
revising
burning the midnight oil
reading up
swotting up
boning up
memorizing
US
memorising
UK
going over
plugging away
applying oneself
working
burying oneself in
hammering away at
genning up
studying intensely
studying intensively
apprehending
discerning
registering
appreciating
cognizing
savvying
deciphering
recognizing
US
intuiting
sensing
seizing
realizing
US
knowing
compassing
seeing
recognising
UK
realising
UK
following
catching
twigging
processing
conceiving
decoding
digging
integrating
making out
catching on to
tumbling to
cottoning to
cottoning on to
latching onto
getting into
absorbing mentally
making of
ascertaining
taking something on board
taking on board
chalking up
having knowledge of
becoming versed in
becoming familiar with
soaking in
taking up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive
equivocating
tergiversating
prevaricating
waffling
pussyfooting
fudging
dodging
hedging
flanneling
flannelling
fencing
weaseling
US
weaselling
UK
sidestepping
evading
quibbling
stalling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
parrying
stonewalling
shuffling
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
paltering
jiving
adumbrating
fibbing
lying
subtilizing
shilly-shallying
dodging the issue
parrying questions
beating about the bush
evading the issue
humming and hawing
fudging the issue
hemming and hawing
sitting on the fence
ducking the question
shuffling about
copping out
ducking the issue
pussyfooting around
beating around the bush
avoiding the issue
mincing words
begging the question
blowing hot and cold
stalling for time
covering up
running around
straddling the fence
copping a plea
passing the buck
clouding the issue
giving run around
telling white lie
mincing matters
deceiving
shifting
fabricating
vacillating
misrepresenting
misspeaking
dissembling
exaggerating
misstating
distorting
inventing
dithering
belying
garbling
falsifying
sidestepping the issue
putting off
putting on
stretching the truth
giving a false colour to
ducking
avoiding
shirking
circumventing
shucking
balking
US
hesitating
giving the runaround
baulking
UK
dancing around an issue
worming one's way out of
flip-flopping
rambling
skirting
blathering
skirting the issue
shifting ground about
playing it close to the vest
wavering
fast-talking
bypassing
hedging your bets
giving the run around
shuffling around
straddling an issue
dodging the question
giving nothing away
playing your cards close to your chest
copping out of
beating about the bush about
getting out of
beating around bush
quibbling about
fending off
finding a way round
skirting round
avoiding answering
eluding
fudging and mudging
tapdancing
dancing around
euphemizing
eschewing
welshing
reneging
fleeing
getting around
sneaking away
slipping out
laying low
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for study
hitting the books
studying
applying oneself
cracking a book
Verb
▲
Present participle for to acquire knowledge on an issue
reading up on
studying
getting up
swotting
boning up on
mugging up on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (excessively) boast about one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
gasconading
blowing
boasting
bragging
bulling
crowing
swaggering
vaporing
vaunting
advertising
advertizing
aggrandizing
blustering
bullying
exaggerating
exulting
faking
flaunting
flourishing
gloating
attracting attention
blowing smoke
congratulating oneself
flattering oneself
blowing your own horn
giving a good account of yourself
Noun
▲
An attempt to persuade a person using flattery or deception
snow job
con
ripoff
scam
flattery
flimflam
hosing
the business
bill of goods
smoke and mirrors
soft sell
soft soap
song and dance
number
elaborate explanation
line
bull
jive
story
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