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Adjective
Likely, capable of, or designed to, deceive
Based on a mistaken or erroneous belief
Having a playfully mischievous character or streak
Noun
The act of beguiling others through deception
Verb
Exploiting someone for one's personal gain
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
Present participle for to be unfaithful to one's regular spouse or partner
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
Present participle for to conceal or disguise (one's thoughts, feelings, or character)
Present participle for stretch the truth
Present participle for to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover
Present participle for to misrepresent something, typically to deceive
Present participle for to alter or misrepresent
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to demonstrate or expose to the falsehood of something
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Adjective
▲
Likely, capable of, or designed to, deceive
deceptive
misleading
fallacious
false
specious
delusive
delusory
deceitful
beguiling
deluding
fraudulent
illusory
insincere
glib
dishonest
unreliable
cheating
cunning
devious
faithless
lying
pretending
untrustworthy
treacherous
duplicitous
double-dealing
perfidious
two-faced
shifty
underhanded
crooked
underhand
guileful
untruthful
shady
sneaky
tricky
Janus-faced
mendacious
unscrupulous
crafty
disingenuous
unprincipled
hypocritical
disloyal
sly
dissembling
bent
false-hearted
two-timing
double-faced
roguish
wily
knavish
traitorous
slippery
double-crossing
hollow-hearted
corrupt
designing
rascally
unfaithful
inconstant
sharp
scheming
untrue
rogue
dishonourable
UK
immoral
fickle
defrauding
slick
subtle
foxy
dishonorable
US
Machiavellian
recreant
adulterous
artful
back-stabbing
swindling
illegal
fast
villainous
unctuous
unethical
disreputable
counterfeit
slim
sneaking
illicit
truthless
unlawful
shrewd
unfair
phoney
UK
hoodwinking
dodgy
wicked
fake
artificial
pretended
feigned
phony
US
criminal
backhanded
dissimulating
mean
base
scoundrelly
insidious
calculating
dirty
fibbing
undependable
conniving
mealymouthed
mealy
flighty
bluffing
forsworn
clandestine
jive
double
snide
foul
Punic
malicious
indirect
astucious
lip
Pecksniffian
phoney-baloney
phony-baloney
left-handed
smart
fly
exploitative
backstabbing
clever
canny
spurious
fishy
trick
oblique
double dealing
wrong
extramarital
bum
serpentine
salty
ornery
hostile
snaky
reprobate
shameless
unsound
incorrigible
treasonable
furtive
adulterate
extracurricular
unchaste
adulterine
unregenerate
astute
stealthy
wayward
raffish
falsehearted
venal
mythomaniac
malevolent
apostate
perjured
renegade
fornicating
moonlighting
speedy
improper
doubting
mala fide
unbelieving
nasty
unloyal
unconverted
sceptical
UK
fluctuating
skeptical
US
dubious
wavering
unstable
capricious
changeful
changeable
fast and loose
despicable
dual
contemptible
low
vile
sordid
unsporting
cheap
ignominious
squalid
rotten
beggarly
shameful
cowardly
ungentlemanly
low-down
nefarious
shabby
detestable
unpleasant
scurvy
paltry
worthless
execrable
unsportsmanlike
illegitimate
wretched
sleazy
grubby
abject
inequitable
unsportsmanly
ignoble
currish
scungy
sorry
deplorable
lousy
scummy
lame
ratty
scabby
off-colour
UK
low-minded
off-color
US
ill-gotten
against the rules
below the belt
not cricket
out of order
shonky
unjust
amoral
malfeasant
elusive
sinister
backbiting
untrusted
smooth
cagey
cagy
cute
hollow
carny
canting
ingenious
iffy
questionable
pharisaical
evasive
jivey
oily
affected
unnatural
feigning
pharisaic
manipulative
deep
skilful
UK
skillful
US
pawky
intriguing
captious
sharp-witted
vulpine
smooth-spoken
smooth-tongued
knowing
secretive
suspect
intelligent
discreditable
streetwise
fiendish
secret
pretentious
equivocating
sham
depraved
resourceful
slimy
fly-by-night
dicey
unconvincing
implausible
pretend
inaccurate
corruptible
unsavoury
UK
unsavory
US
flimsy
doubtful
fallible
weak
mischievous
intentionally misleading
surreptitious
suspicious
bland
caviling
US
assuming
tenuous
perjurious
cavilling
UK
greasy
ambidextrous
grafting
buyable
snidey
arch
abhorrent
reprehensible
unsupported
chancy
shaky
risky
unsubstantiated
rocky
inventive
disgraceful
imaginative
dexterous
US
adroit
dangerous
covert
savvy
contriving
vulgar
incorrect
mistaken
defective
uncertain
erroneous
abominable
degenerate
treasonous
assumed
inauthentic
prevaricating
dextrous
UK
plotting
odious
dirty-dealing
indecent
crass
graceless
flakey
US
pseudo
flaky
UK
crazy like a fox
wide of the mark
off-target
betraying
no-good
open to question
snake in the grass
open to doubt
equivocal
evil
iniquitous
bamboozling
against the law
bribable
acute
lawless
hypocritic
deft
alert
Pharisaic
Tartuffian
Pharisaical
bootleg
sagacious
masterly
adept
irresponsible
appalling
thoughtless
ruthless
proficient
politic
experienced
suborned
errant
deviant
perilous
ensnaring
wormlike
despisable
disagreeable
impish
in bad faith
collusive
unhonest
leading
like a snake in the grass
under the counter
mealy-mouthed
heads-up
sketchy
seedy
unveracious
loathsome
meanspirited
disrespectful
unconscionable
under the table
scandalous
irregular
paltering
misrepresenting
inventing
misstating
falsifying
distasteful
subversive
seditious
loaded
murky
inglorious
rebellious
slipshod
shoddy
cruddy
disdainable
malignant
economical with the truth
not to be trusted
keen
mutinous
bad
back-alley
cloak-and-dagger
breakaway
wry
witted
commiting perjury
swearing falsely
bearing false witness
street-smart
street smart
sly like a fox
committing perjury
good-for-naught
meritless
good-for-nothing
no-count
no-account
of dubious character
potentially illegal
devilish
disgusting
tawdry
dastardly
low-life
beastly
overdone
exaggerated
cynical
pseud
put-on
not candid
not frank
lacking sincerity
with tongue in cheek
falsified
more ❯
“Nothing, in all Shakspere's philosophy, appears to us finer than the
deceiving
nature of Romeo's presages in the last act.”
Adjective
▲
Based on a mistaken or erroneous belief
fallacious
false
erroneous
wrong
inaccurate
incorrect
misleading
untrue
specious
inexact
deceptive
mistaken
flawed
faulty
spurious
unfounded
delusive
delusory
imprecise
fictitious
illusory
distorted
unreal
fabricated
deceitful
bogus
groundless
misguided
unsupported
deluding
off
baseless
illogical
unsubstantiated
beguiling
unproven
fraudulent
foundationless
sophistical
uncorroborated
ungrounded
iffy
phoney
UK
phony
US
dodgy
misinformed
fishy
dicey
sophistic
reasonless
mad
unreasoned
ill-founded
off beam
made up
trumped up
without foundation
without basis
full of holes
way off
way off beam
unsound
fake
sham
imaginary
casuistic
illusive
counterfeit
misrepresentative
hollow
insincere
concocted
untruthful
invalid
mock
fanciful
seeming
invented
ostensible
counterfactual
apparent
truthless
artificial
chimerical
fantastic
ambiguous
visionary
dishonest
apocryphal
forged
factitious
pseudo
vain
illusionary
improper
colored
US
coloured
UK
faked
cooked-up
meretricious
unreasonable
irrational
fakey
misconceived
impostrous
economical with the truth
quixotic
insubstantial
in error
off the mark
contrary to fact
plausible
credible
presumptive
likely
captious
colorable
nugatory
probable
sophisticated
empty
presumable
flattering
ostentatious
pretentious
idle
tricky
disingenuous
imitation
seemingly correct
confusing
plastic
evasive
apparently right
plausible but wrong
casuistical
feigned
unstraightforward
superficial
glib
put-on
equivocal
perplexing
catchy
distracting
confounding
bewildering
mistakable
puzzling
demagogic
simulated
contrived
ersatz
imagined
trumped-up
fictional
ideal
notional
hallucinatory
whimsical
fancied
fictive
suppositious
supposititious
delusional
semblant
Barmecidal
Barmecide
non-existent
blue sky
pipe dream
unreliable
questionable
out
defective
wide of the mark
dubious
doubtful
off target
implausible
flimsy
made-up
unjustified
unconvincing
imperfect
amiss
weak
nonvalid
tenuous
unwarranted
falsified
unlikely
improbable
awry
off base
bad
fallible
unverified
suspect
far-fetched
ungenuine
way out
not exact
not accurate
pretend
off-base
incredible
preposterous
off-target
unconfirmed
mythical
absurd
exaggerated
conjectural
speculative
gratuitous
hoax
incoherent
debatable
impaired
unrealistic
untenable
untrustworthy
undependable
askew
not true
off-beam
not backed up by evidence
inadequate
outlandish
adopted
garbled
adrift
unbelievable
discrepant
unjustifiable
fabulous
manufactured
worthless
mythological
confused
unfit
untested
dud
astray
doctored
overblown
blemished
extravagant
outrageous
unattested
impossible
uncalled-for
embellished
suspicious
dubitable
bizarre
abroad
bottomless
sensational
unimaginable
trick
erring
nonsensical
contradictory
wide
farfetched
laughable
hyperbolic
farcical
shady
spectacular
way-out
way-off
not genuine
inconceivable
chancy
shaky
risky
rocky
disreputable
incongruous
disputable
ludicrous
illegal
embroidered
arguable
uncertain
unauthenticated
tall
all wet
beyond belief
way off-beam
hard to swallow
cock and bull
blown up
flakey
US
unstable
flaky
UK
not working
open to question
open to doubt
counterfeited
unfitting
dissembling
unprovoked
lying
unauthorized
US
pinchbeck
mocking
improvised
unauthentic
unfactual
nonfactual
mind-boggling
histrionic
wrong-headed
unsustainable
inauthentic
cod
indefinite
far out
legendary
uncalled for
not backed up
causeless
unthinkable
ridiculous
uncanonical
framed
bent
bum
complicated
out of the ordinary
without justification
without reason
without cause
unauthorised
UK
error-filled
wanting
ingenuine
not trustworthy
erratic
elaborate
without explanation
wrongly inferred
make-believe
not the case
fluffed
caricatural
haywire
misfigured
goofed
misconstrued
mishandled
miscalculated
unsatisfactory
cooked up
null
inappropriate
foul
rotten
not precise
at fault
null and void
dummy
void
nonbinding
inoperative
out of commission
out of line
unfaithful
careless
wild
on the wrong track
crooked
off track
in the wrong
not binding
wrong number
all off
wrongly identified
labouring under a misapprehension
wide of mark
barking up wrong tree
barking up the wrong tree
out of order
glitched up
uncollectible
not right
deficient
doesn't wash
without substantiation
without merit
unapt
assailable
frail
warped
incomplete
botched
tainted
cracked
injured
debased
rank
lame
insufficient
leaky
malformed
blamable
below par
unpersuasive
off the wall
self-contradictory
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Having a playfully mischievous character or streak
roguish
mischievous
impish
puckish
waggish
arch
devilish
playful
rascally
prankish
tricksy
wicked
sly
knavish
sportive
elvish
scampish
teasing
frolicsome
leprechaunish
naughty
pixieish
pixie
pixy
ludic
cheeky
coquettish
espiègle
raffish
rakish
cunning
beguiling
crafty
slick
sneaky
flippant
lively
gay
merry
lighthearted
elfish
jokey
whimsical
jocular
frivolous
funny
facetious
tongue-in-cheek
humorous
jesting
jocose
gamesome
witty
elfin
kittenish
frisky
droll
coltish
light-hearted
comical
spirited
jolly
joking
jaunty
mirthful
amusing
sprightly
blithe
high-spirited
comic
flip
skittish
cheerful
bubbly
jocund
joyous
sportful
larkish
in jest
in fun
fun-loving
glib
chucklesome
saucy
bantering
pert
snappy
jovial
larky
antic
fay
perky
exuberant
silly
rollicking
peppy
frolicky
coy
entertaining
pixilated
implike
good-humoured
UK
good-humored
US
knowing
smart
casual
flirtatious
giddy
clever
vivacious
gleeful
fresh
offhand
frolic
cute
devil-may-care
wisecracking
happy
zestful
joshing
laughable
pleasant
zippy
fun
wry
satirical
bouncy
animated
zesty
unserious
full of beans
tongue in cheek
elven
elflike
pawky
foxy
tricky
pixyish
pixie-like
mysterious
wanton
artful
affected
wily
troublemaking
mischief-making
fiendish
capering
full of mischief
for a laugh
good-natured
as a joke
to tease
cocky
smart-alecky
inane
sassy
inappropriate
free and easy
risible
putting one on
pulling one's leg
not serious
ridiculous
wise
smart-aleck
impertinent
sarcastic
sardonic
hilarious
diverting
clowning
cheery
laughing
blithesome
sunny
festive
rude
irreverent
impudent
dismissive
disrespectful
precious
cutesy
smarty-pants
flakey
US
camp
wacky
flaky
UK
joculous
ludicrous
crazy
daffy
campy
boffo
flirty
breezy
mincingly clever
lippy
airy
energetic
sparky
gagged up
for grins
excitable
pizazzy
jazzy
pizzazzy
full of fun
full of life
full of pep
feeling one's oats
full of get-up-and-go
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
in high spirits
full of joie de vivre
full of vim and vigour
demure
superficial
joyful
buoyant
chipper
sparkling
effervescent
glad
active
upbeat
chirpy
bright
vital
carefree
racy
brisk
animate
mettlesome
bouncing
springy
kinetic
spanking
vigorous
peart
ebullient
zingy
gladsome
happy-go-lucky
jubilant
convivial
as merry as a grig
spry
zappy
light
romping
elated
exhilarated
uproarious
sparkly
wick
riotous
swinging
in good spirits
flighty
as lively as a grig
keen
boisterous
enjoyable
agile
nimble
euphoric
suggestive
lightsome
genial
larking
exultant
optimistic
crank
irrepressible
untroubled
smiley
enthusiastic
full of energy
scintillating
dashing
jumping
rocking
ribbing
amorous
full of the joys of spring
inviting
dallying
provocative
seductive
kidding
fun-filled
come-hither
boon
pleasurable
delighted
ecstatic
excited
vampish
philandering
contented
overjoyed
delightful
pleasing
unworried
thrilled
peaceful
blissful
pleased
high
orgasmic
easy
gratified
content
blessed
blest
tickled
up
captivated
intoxicated
positive
bubbling
mocking
radiant
grinning
tickled pink
flying high
can't complain
looking good
walking on air
on cloud nine
wild
tickling
badgering
perk
smiling
farcical
hopeful
bold
winsome
vibrant
tantalising
UK
tempting
tantalizing
US
rip-roaring
dynamic
grooving
exciting
sidesplitting
stimulating
cock-a-hoop
at ease
bright and breezy
spritely
frolicking
game
amused
misbehaving
lightweight
laughter-filled
disobedient
flirting
passionate
jumpy
eager
ardent
recreative
vivid
eupeptic
fairylike
hyper
canty
trivial
trifling
lusty
insouciant
dramatic
alert
full of vim and vigor
feisty
recreational
dry
brash
noisy
hearty
sexy
cavorting
swashbuckling
easy-going
rollicksome
thumping
ripping
outgoing
exhilarating
heady
hysterical
comedic
humoristic
sporty
gregarious
killing
zany
priceless
trim
natty
venturesome
heartwarming
fantastic
welcome
wonderful
spruce
showy
absurd
hysteric
extrovert
fiery
distinctive
forceful
peppery
gingery
forcible
rapt
glowing
satisfied
rapturous
enraptured
chuffed
stoked
wrapped
ribald
go-go
rhapsodic
paradisiacal
beatific
well
thankful
rosy
paradisal
rhapsodical
paradisaical
rejoicing
triumphant
paradisaic
saturnalian
entranced
sanguine
paradisiac
rousing
fulfilled
enchanted
beaming
enticing
comfortable
entertained
magical
meaningful
Panglossian
side-splitting
rib-tickling
poised
composed
pacific
possessed
commodious
providential
sober
measured
collected
too funny for words
feel-good
as pleased as Punch
as happy as a clam
as happy as a sandboy
in a good mood
in seventh heaven
tickled to death
beside oneself with joy
on top of the world
starry-eyed
over the moon
blissed out
rose-colored
on a high
floating on air
as happy as Larry
jumping for joy
like a dog with two tails
spoony
libidinous
telling
significant
come-on
sharp-witted
highbrowed
snazzy
profound
sharp
quick on the draw
ironic
tactful
nimble-witted
cutting
quick
quick on the uptake
slapstick
quick-witted
expressive
hushed
unflustered
sedate
unperturbed
unruffled
enigmatic
hip
good
eloquent
speaking
at peace
self-possessed
weighty
consequential
Pickwickian
friendly
without a care in the world
of good cheer
lots of laughs
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act of beguiling others through deception
cheating
deceit
dishonesty
duplicity
guile
craftiness
fraud
cunning
artifice
deception
craft
wiliness
deceitfulness
crookedness
chicanery
dissimulation
foxiness
cunningness
dissembling
guilefulness
fakery
deceptiveness
crookery
dupery
cozenage
lying
defrauding
embezzlement
exploitation
fiddling
misappropriation
double-dealing
trickery
deviousness
fraudulence
slyness
underhandedness
chicane
hanky-panky
flimflam
sharp practice
unscrupulousness
artfulness
treachery
sneakiness
swindle
trickiness
subterfuge
racket
corruption
jiggery-pokery
monkey business
skulduggery
shadiness
hocus-pocus
falsity
fourberie
criminality
wile
knavery
shiftiness
perfidiousness
swindling
graft
legerdemain
improbity
mendacity
perfidy
funny business
pretence
UK
falsehood
wiles
pretense
US
codology
faithlessness
stealing
subtlety
infidelity
rascality
insidiousness
infamy
bunk
shenanigans
hoax
slickness
con
subtleness
ruse
dodge
jugglery
imposture
scam
gamesmanship
hypocrisy
canniness
cageyness
caginess
monkeyshines
trick
intrigue
dirty pool
indirection
imposition
skullduggery
management
kidology
sophistry
cheat
stratagem
sting
bluff
duping
sham
falseness
feint
tricks
cleverness
hoodwinking
dissemblance
dirty dealing
scheme
knavishness
shrewdness
stratagems
unfairness
fiddle
scheming
bluffing
extortion
rip-off
fast one
snow job
shell game
smoke and mirrors
insincerity
two-facedness
treacherousness
ploy
con game
ploys
schemes
manoeuvres
UK
gambit
manoeuvre
UK
hustle
ruses
evasion
plot
maneuver
US
shakedown
dirty work
maneuvers
US
foul play
contrivance
dirty tricks
every trick in the book
double-cross
con trick
ambidexterity
trapping
ambidextrousness
betrayal
shady deal
dubiousness
delusion
overreaching
cozening
entrapping
two-timing
bunco
astuteness
subterfuges
illegality
shamming
falsification
spuriousness
misrepresentation
furtiveness
misleading talk
unjustness
strategy
hokum
evil
sell
misconduct
hornswoggling
pettifoggery
bunko
ingenuity
diddle
sleight
illusion
boondoggle
tactics
corruptness
game
beguilement
ramp
posturing
quackery
cant
blackmail
grift
lawlessness
twist
stunt
humbug
roguery
sleight of hand
put-on
counterfeiting
masking
confidence trick
concealment
fraudulent scheme
fast shuffle
crooked deal
confidence game
slipperiness
suspiciousness
untruthfulness
ability
perspicacity
bad faith
untrustworthiness
finesse
mendaciousness
hocus
machinations
unlawfulness
nefariousness
jobbery
gerrymandering
dishonor
US
dishonour
UK
malfeasance
wire-pulling
surreptitiousness
waffle
talk
double-crossing
machination
verbiage
nonsense
manipulation
manoeuvring
UK
joke
disingenuity
fraudulency
dishonourableness
mischief
mudslinging
prestidigitation
lawbreaking
roguishness
unprincipledness
unscrupulosity
questionableness
questionability
hot air
footwork
phoniness
disingenuousness
speciousness
unrepresentativeness
inaccurateness
unreliableness
illusoriness
inaccuracy
unreliability
fix
device
knack
play
jig
gimmick
fetch
juggle
shenanigan
rort
bait and switch
evasiveness
sanctimoniousness
palace intrigue
dirty game
dirty politics
specious reasoning
maneuvering
US
artful argument
simulation
kite
monkey tricks
misleading
feigning
treason
prevarication
horseplay
slant
setup
allurement
lure
angle
switch
hosing
jive
canard
faking
Tartufferie
fixing
equivocation
prank
piousness
disguising
concealing
phoneyness
sophism
obfuscation
untruth
blarney
defraudation
circumvention
juggling
trumpery
hiding
shrouding
veiling
fastie
lies
propaganda
villainy
conspiracy
fake
little game
rip off
sucker game
rug pull
disguise
suppression
camouflage
wrongdoing
swizz
empty talk
hypocritical talk
hypocritical behaviour
swizzle
iniquity
baseness
play-acting
acting
pretending
covering
crime
vileness
theft
squeeze
lay
push
depravity
frame-up
double cross
turpitude
viciousness
blind
illegal scheme
illegal enterprise
criminal activity
illicit scheme
bit of sharp practice
wheeze
unfaithfulness
disloyalty
pretension
charlatanry
evil-doing
twoness
dualism
duality
Judas kiss
dirty trick
one-upmanship
stab in back
guise
front
affectation
fabrication
lie
facade
masquerade
show
façade
display
semblance
cover
mask
veil
casuistry
charade
veneer
pose
sanctimony
invention
cloak
lip service
pharisaicalness
pietism
unctuousness
false front
glibness
mockery
playacting
act
airs
pharisaism
smokescreen
cover-up
irreverence
bigotry
make-believe
distortion
false profession
fibbing
tartuffery
pretentiousness
appearance
posture
screen
stall
lack of veracity
perjury
coloring
US
posing
red herring
smoke screen
air
telling stories
colouring
UK
counterfeit
shroud
false show
false colours
self-righteousness
adulteration
fig leaf
shuffling
impression
image
false appearance
outward appearance
pomposity
smugness
pageant
pretext
inveracity
misrepresenting
misstating
perversion
exaggeration
fakeness
imitation
prevaricating
schtick
misstatement
fallacy
doctoring
debasement
tampering
Pharisaism
amphibology
stretch
fudging
alteration
amphiboly
routine
stonewall
fib
attitude
mutilation
garb
ostentation
changing
snivel
travesty
parody
costume
line
story
false excuse
false pretense
dumb act
committing perjury
affected piety
false light
shade
whitewash
face
dress
a put-on
double meaning
tall story
a put-up job
double entendre
double talk
false display
not a true picture
false piety
run-around
song and dance
window dressing
quibbling routine
cop out
haughtiness
conceit
superciliousness
self-satisfaction
complacency
piety
religiosity
misinformation
disinformation
persona
forgery
equivocality
artificiality
duplicitousness
ambiguity
manipulating
crocodile tears
faithless
coverup
visage
performance
vitiation
misapplication
doubtfulness
impersonation
mummery
hollowness
snide
backhandedness
hoaxing
mien
stance
aspect
disguisement
beard
song
equivoque
euphemism
hedging
hedge
half-truth
personation
color
US
colour
UK
revel
role
mannerism
carriage
fantasy
being two-faced
chaser
hamming
phoney
UK
phony
US
dissimilation
attitudinizing
tergiversation
stand
tampering with
mere façade
public image
hypocriticalness
tokenism
pecksniffery
daydreaming
dream
imagination
unreality
putting on a front
assuming a front
sweet talk
soft soap
weasel word
shuck and jive
dreaming
romancing
fancy
inventing
equivocating
falsifying
hypocritical statement
misprision
moralising
UK
moralizing
US
sham holiness
pious platitudes
white lies
self-deception
little white lies
hushing up
covering up
keeping secret
fairy tale
role-playing
doublespeak
indirectness
circumlocution
waffling
flannel
paltering
beating about the bush
phariseeism
pussyfooting around
false virtue
affected superiority
twisting
slanting
weasel words
double standard
caricature
stretching
more ❯
Verb
▲
Exploiting someone for one's personal gain
using
taking advantage of
exploiting
manipulating
abusing
beguiling
controlling
defrauding
fleecing
mistreating
patronising
UK
patronizing
US
ripping off
targeting
targetting
victimising
UK
profiting from
victimizing
US
cashing in on
cheating
ill-using
jerking around
leveraging
misusing
preying on
using for one's own ends
stepping on
trifling with
imposing on
maltreating
playing with
treating lightly
bleeding
walking all over
capitalizing on
playing for a sucker
playing on
milking
taking liberties with
playing upon
making the most of
making use of
benefitting from
working
harnessing
utilizing
US
turning to account
utilising
UK
putting to good use
drawing on
profiting by
getting mileage out of
putting to use
making capital out of
using to advantage
imposing upon
using to good advantage
turning to good use
making the best use of
employing
maximizing
US
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
maximising
UK
putting to advantage
making capital of
pimping
exercising
finessing
jockeying
playing
capitalizing
US
gaining from
capitalising
UK
availing oneself of
trading on
making hay while the sun shines
striking while the iron is hot
doing well out of
turning to one's advantage
getting the most out of
doing an injustice to
tapping into
tapping
doing well from
taking advantage
operating
applying
enjoying
making free
mining
handling
building on
deriving benefit from
obtaining an advantage from
reaping the benefit of
punishing
squeezing
wringing
enslaving
swindling
sucking dry
living off the backs of
dumping on
withholding rights from
taking for a ride
preying upon
putting one over on
treating unfairly
walking over
ill-treating
walking on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
tricking
fooling
hoaxing
misleading
cheating
conning
deluding
duping
hoodwinking
beguiling
swindling
bamboozling
outwitting
taking in
stinging
defrauding
double-crossing
ensnaring
entrapping
gulling
misguiding
stiffing
cozening
inveigling
seducing
betraying
bilking
doing
kidding
leading on
snookering
suckering
diddling
fiddling
hornswoggling
rooking
shafting
swizzling
bluffing
buffaloing
buncoing
burning
catching
euchring
gaffing
gammoning
having
humbugging
juggling
misinforming
snowing
spoofing
mulcting
ripping off
scamming
beating
circumventing
clipping
cuckolding
disappointing
faking
faking out
falsifying
fleecing
gouging
having on
hooking
robbing
screwing
selling
skinning
stringing along
sucking in
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
crossing up
lying to
playing away
putting on
putting one over on
selling a pup to
stepping out
taking to the cleaners
beating out of
playing joke on
pulling a swifty on
pulling fast one
taking advantage of
taking for a ride
taking for ride
taking to cleaners
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
pulling a fast one on
handing a line
flimflamming
hosing
finagling
hustling
shortchanging
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
bleeding
sticking
shorting
chousing
reaming
plucking
squeezing
skunking
thimblerigging
nobbling
leading up the garden path
shaking down
doing in
doing a number on
exploiting
chicaning
roping in
pulling one's leg
overreaching
outfoxing
leading down the garden path
illuding
luring
baiting
leading astray
outmaneuvering
US
sandbagging
outmanoeuvring
UK
selling down the river
stitching up
milking
outsmarting
giving someone a bum steer
doing the dirty on
foxing
pulling a fast one
trapping
two-timing
setting up
mousetrapping
making a fool of
fudging
embezzling
wheedling
gazumping
goldbricking
juking
enticing
jiving
tempting
misdirecting
stabbing in the back
outslicking
stealing
outthinking
manipulating
befooling
cajoling
decoying
misrepresenting
lying
disinforming
overcharging
playing someone false
letting down
crossing
taking
breaking faith with
selling out
baffling
short-changing
bewildering
alluring
double-dealing
confusing
selling a pup
prevaricating
misstating
coaxing
failing
outdoing
framing
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
swizzing
outjockeying
fabricating
distorting
rushing
outplaying
perverting
defeating
backstabbing
shucking
topping
jockeying
imposing on
selling a bill of goods
pulling
catching out
doing out of
outguessing
stealing a march on
throwing off the scent
outgeneralling
outgeneraling
capping
jerking around
putting on the wrong track
running a game on
jipping
worsting
getting the better of
screwing over
balking
US
leading up garden path
figuring out
selling a bill of goods to
persuading
inducing
entangling
enmeshing
playing
soliciting
lulling
wangling
thwarting
trimming
using
soaking
propagandizing
US
propagandising
UK
playing a trick on
pilfering
plundering
baulking
UK
steering
giving the wrong impression
covering up
four-flushing
playing for a sucker
playing games with
pulling someone's leg
putting on an act
putting on false front
double dealing
running rings round
playing trick on
putting up smoke screen
giving wrong information to
doing someone in the eye
making rings round
going back on
sending on a wild goose chase
wrong steering
corrupting
leading off
depriving
weaseling
US
ducking
dodging
weaselling
UK
trolling
doing someone dirty
deking
shamming
copping out
beating around the bush
worming one's way out of
slipping out
slipping something over on
bending the rules
stacking the cards
stretching the rules
pulling something funny
hitting below the belt
blagging
pulling in
stumping
bunking
finessing
fixing
wandering
giving away
ratting on
pigeoning
ruining
frustrating
foiling
despoiling
extorting
heisting
filching
psyching out
outperforming
throwing
tripping up
buttying
play-acting
making a sucker of
welshing
playing dirty
dallying
trifling
toying
swaying
contriving
drawing
flamming
cucking
wantoning
pulling wool over
catfishing
playing for a fool
preying on
sweet-talking
impressing
poking borack
gipping
bleeding dry
suckering into
doing number on
inviting
hocus-pocusing
going one better than
putting one over
putting someone up to something
splitting
biasing
US
biassing
UK
cuckoldizing
bribing
penalising
UK
punishing
forfeiting
penalizing
US
fining
gaslighting
trifling with
toying with
dallying with
playing with
making use of
snaring
playing fast and loose with
giving the runaround
sending on a wild-goose chase
coming on to
sweeping off feet
wiling
distracting
ensorcelling
tolling
touting
shilling
fascinating
making a monkey of
making somebody look an idiot
making a monkey out of
implicating
involving
doublecrossing
coming on
incriminating
horning
hornifying
putting horns on
pressuring
ingratiating
pressing
embroiling
pulling strings
playing games
stage-managing
pulling wires
embrangling
twisting around your little finger
broiling
miring
engaging
deserting
talking into
pooling
attacking
cribbing
belirting
roguing
lirting
blenching
rogueing
fitting up
abusing
mistreating
laying a trap for
playing Judas
pimping on
committing treason
turning traitor
breaking promise
taking out
breaking the rules
giving bum steer
messing around
besting
more ❯
“He helped disguise loans as sales in order to boost the company's revenue and thereby
deceive
the public as well as government regulators.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be unfaithful to one's regular spouse or partner
betraying
cheating
failing
two-timing
cheating on
cuckolding
wandering
letting down
playing someone false
stepping out
“She did not truly believe that her husband would ever
deceive
her with another woman.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
fibbing
prevaricating
fabricating
lying
falsifying
equivocating
misrepresenting
faking
inventing
paltering
conning
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
tricking
forswearing
committing perjury
bearing false witness
lying under oath
swearing falsely
bluffing
hoodwinking
misinforming
hoaxing
misspeaking
misstating
misguiding
beguiling
duping
bulling
fudging
overdrawing
perverting
snowing
misinstructing
gaslighting
distorting
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
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
forging
simulating
hatching
telling untruth
counterfeiting
creating out of thin air
coining
dreaming up
conjuring up
devising
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to conceal or disguise (one's thoughts, feelings, or character)
dissimulating
dissembling
shamming
faking
feigning
pretending
counterfeiting
bluffing
posturing
posing
acting
masquerading
disguising
masking
hiding
veiling
concealing
obscuring
cloaking
suppressing
lying
camouflaging
bearding
making out
putting on an act
dressing up
letting on
putting up a front
going through the motions
making a pretense
making a show
putting on a false front
presenting a false face
presenting a false front
simulating
affecting
assuming
professing
falsifying
whitewashing
misleading
stonewalling
shrouding
covering
pussyfooting
putting on
passing for
play-acting
making like
playing possum
covering up
four-flushing
shucking and jiving
putting on a front
putting up a smoke screen
playacting
putting it on
kidding
impersonating
putting on airs
imitating
playing
purporting
passing off
making out like
screening
misrepresenting
fronting
portraying
mimicking
reproducing
faking it
attitudinizing
making up
keeping secret
playing at
passing oneself off as
doing a bit
making as if
striking a pose
hushing up
keeping dark
assuming the role
showing off
playing the part of
striking an attitude
drawing a veil over
hoaxing
adopting
striking
pulling
representing
seeming to be
posturing as
taking on
pretending to be
claiming falsely
faking out
fabricating
forging
inventing
devising
malingering
messing
occulting
blanketing
obfuscating
withholding
enshrouding
downplaying
varnishing
veneering
minimizing
US
muffling
curtaining
giving the appearance of
extenuating
airbrushing
secreting
sugarcoating
showboating
making a pretence of
minimising
UK
making a show of
grandstanding
making inconspicuous
putting up a smokescreen
keeping under your hat
blotting out
papering over
making show of
putting on act
giving appearance of
going through the motions of
putting on a false display
behaving affectedly
assuming an attitude
disguising yourself
copping an attitude
taking off as
keeping quiet about
sweeping under the rug
sweeping under the carpet
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
de-emphasizing
keeping a lid on
giving a false identity to
falsely representing
making a pretense of
hamming
hamming it up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for stretch the truth
prevaricating
lying
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
dodging
equivocating
hedging
paltering
quibbling
shuffling
tergiversating
fencing
flanneling
flannelling
pussyfooting
shilly-shallying
sidestepping
evading
fabricating
fibbing
shifting
stalling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
vacillating
beating about the bush
belying
conning
dissembling
distorting
dithering
exaggerating
falsifying
fudging
garbling
inventing
jiving
misrepresenting
misspeaking
misstating
dodging the issue
parrying questions
sidestepping the issue
begging the question
putting off
putting on
stretching the truth
ducking the issue
humming and hawing
stalling for time
beating around the bush
giving a false colour to
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover
jilting
ditching
abandoning
dropping
rejecting
betraying
deserting
forsaking
disappointing
dumping
leaving
discarding
chucking
coquetting
throwing over
casting aside
blowing off
breaking up with
finishing with
kissing off
walking out on
binning off
breaking off
breaking off with
breaking up
breaking with
leaving flat
running out on
splitting up
turning down
walking out
doing the dirty on
getting rid of
leaving high and dry
leaving in the lurch
giving someone the push
giving the elbow
giving the old heave-ho
leaving at the altar
giving someone the big E
Verb
▲
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
conning
lying
misleading
snowing
misconstruing
whitewashing
quoting out of context
putting a spin on
taking out of context
trumping up
putting the wrong slant on
perverting
altering
forging
doctoring
fudging
counterfeiting
warping
changing
fabricating
cooking
adulterating
inventing
garbling
embroidering
tampering with
debasing
twisting
massaging
corrupting
manipulating
vitiating
embellishing
fiddling
contravening
contorting
promoting
fixing
rigging
four-flushing
traversing
deaconing
glossing
exaggerating
equivocating
fibbing
salting
paltering
prevaricating
faking it
framing up
dressing up
putting on an act
giving a false account of
concealing
cloaking
masking
straining
overdrawing
overstating
miscoloring
airbrushing
giving a false idea of
glossing over
varnishing
overdoing
dramatizing
US
enhancing
covering
hyperbolizing
magnifying
poisoning
screening
hiding
suppressing
shrouding
obscuring
enshrouding
occulting
curtaining
veiling
blanketing
romanticizing
US
dramatising
UK
padding
romanticising
UK
blotting out
papering over
elaborating on
parodying
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dressing
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Present participle for to alter or misrepresent
disguising
misrepresenting
belying
dissimulating
falsifying
fudging
varnishing
affecting
altering
changing
colouring
UK
coloring
US
counterfeiting
faking
garbling
touching up
varnishing over
doctoring up
giving a false picture of
Verb
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Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
simulating
pretending
feigning
affecting
shamming
acting
counterfeiting
faking
assuming
bluffing
dissembling
imitating
professing
putting on
reproducing
fabricating
aping
borrowing
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creating
cribbing
disguising
doing
equivocating
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favoring
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favouring
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fencing
inventing
lying
lifting
mirroring
misrepresenting
parroting
passing for
pirating
playing
playacting
posing
prevaricating
resembling
stealing
suggesting
acting like
acting out
conjuring up
doing like
glossing over
knocking off
mocking up
taking off
doing a take-off
giving the appearance of
going through the motions of
putting on an act
Verb
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Present participle for to demonstrate or expose to the falsehood of something
belying
disproving
contradicting
discrediting
confuting
refuting
debunking
rebutting
controverting
denying
exploding
exposing
repudiating
confounding
disconfirming
falsifying
gainsaying
invalidating
negating
negativing
shooting down
calling into question
contravening
disaffirming
disagreeing
opposing
proving false
making a nonsense of
proving to be false
shooting full of holes
showing to be false
giving the lie to
knocking the bottom out of
shooting down in flames
blowing out of the water
driving a coach and horses through
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