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To deceive or fool someone

A humorous or malicious deception

A fraudulent imitation of something else

An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true

Something done or said to amuse people

The condition or quality of being phony or fake

News circulating in the form of rumor or gossip

Intended or used to mystify, or to create an illusion

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Verb

To deceive or fool someone

play a prank on

play a practical joke on

take for a ride

put one over on

play games with

pull a fast one on

pull a swifty on

lead up the garden path

take someone for a ride

pull the wool over somebody's eyes

take advantage of

take to the cleaners

outmanoeuvre^UK

pull the wool over one's eyes

lead one down the garden path

give someone a bum steer

pull the wool over someone's eyes

pull somebody's leg

pull a fast one

do the dirty on

pull someone's leg

take someone in

have someone on

get the better of

put on the wrong track

send on a wild goose chase

throw off the scent

play a trick on

propagandize^US

propagandise^UK

run rings round

sell a bill of goods to

be cleverer than

make rings round

lead up garden path

put on false front

bait and switch

give wrong information to

play a practical joke

pull wool over eyes

put up smoke screen

steal a march on

make a sucker of

go one better than

give the runaround

lead down the garden path

send on a wild-goose chase

give the wrong impression

put one over on someone

sell down the river

pull a fast one on someone

sell a bill of goods

break the rules

take to the cleaner's

do someone in the eye

play for a fool

string someone along

take to cleaners

play for a sucker

twist around your little finger

play fast and loose with

make a monkey out of

mess someone around

make a monkey out of someone

pull someone's chain

wind someone up

mess someone about

yank somebody's chain

tell an untruth

tell a falsehood

be economical with the truth

not speak the truth

perjure yourself

make up a story

forswear oneself

bear false witness

say something untrue

not tell the truth

stretch the truth

tell a white lie

perjure oneself

forswear yourself

tell a terminological inexactitude

concoct a story

depart from the truth

stab in the back

break faith with

lay it on thick

make a monkey of

make somebody look an idiot

worm one's way out of

beat around the bush

stretch the rules

pull something funny

stack the cards

hit below the belt

sell someone down the river

slip something over on

make a fool of somebody

lead somebody down the garden path

be unfaithful to

rub the right way

put someone up to something

find a loophole in

exploit a loophole in

break your word

break one's word

find a way round

pass yourself off as

be hypocritical

play someone false

fail to satisfy

fall short of expectations

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“I know that Ern Malley was not a real person, but a personality invented in order to hoax me.”

Noun

A humorous or malicious deception

confidence trick

confidence game

misrepresentation

piece of mischief

mischievous act

sleight of hand

monkey business

smoke and mirrors

victimisation^UK

victimization^US

mischievous trick

crocodile tears

attention-grabber

sanctimoniousness

bit of sharp practice

piece of deception

fraudulent scheme

hypocritical talk

hypocritical behaviour

wild-goose chase

diversionary tactic

misleading clue

underhandedness

oldest trick in the book

bait and switch

prestidigitation

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“A funeral urn full of ashes left in a Salford cab may have been part of an elaborate hoax by Irish pranksters.”

Noun

A fraudulent imitation of something else

chip off old block

facsimile reproduction

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Noun

An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true

putting on an act

lack of veracity

outward appearance

misrepresentation

false appearance

pretentiousness

superciliousness

airs and graces

assumed manners

going Hollywood

unnatural imitation

putting on airs

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Noun

Something done or said to amuse people

double entendre

shaggy dog story

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Noun

A hypocrite

hypocritical person

whited sepulchre

wolf in sheep's clothing

Noun

The condition or quality of being phony or fake

disingenuousness

pretentiousness

duplicitousness

pharisaicalness

sanctimoniousness

false profession

being two-faced

self-righteousness

superciliousness

self-satisfaction

affected superiority

double standard

unrepresentativeness

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Noun

News circulating in the form of rumor or gossip

back-fence talk

unconfirmed report

the word on the street

word on the street

whispering campaign

piece of gossip

piece of hearsay

second-hand information

talk of the town

secondhand information

malicious gossip

grapevine report

intimate intelligence

scandalmongering

jungle telegraph

grapevine telegraph

malicious rumour

malicious rumours

unsubstantiated information

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Adjective

Intended or used to mystify, or to create an illusion

not what it is cracked up to be

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