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Plural for a humorous or malicious deception

Plural for a fraudulent imitation of something else

Plural for a crafty, and typically underhanded, means to achieve one's aims

Plural for a manner or expression that hides one's true character or feelings

Plural for a practical joke or mischievous trick

Plural for a joke or an amusing story

Plural for the condition or quality of being phony or fake

Plural for news circulating in the form of rumor or gossip

To deceive or fool someone

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Noun

Plural for a humorous or malicious deception

practical jokes

confidence tricks

confidence games

sanctimoniousness

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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

Plural for a fraudulent imitation of something else

confidence tricksters

double-crossers

practical jokers

confidence artists

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Noun

Plural for a crafty, and typically underhanded, means to achieve one's aims

confidence tricks

sleight of hand

misrepresentation

monkey business

victimization^US

confidence games

underhandedness

wild-goose chases

terminological inexactitudes

cock-and-bull stories

courses of action

maneuverings^US

manoeuvrings^UK

instrumentalities

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Noun

Plural for a manner or expression that hides one's true character or feelings

misrepresentation

false pretenses

attitudinizings

superciliousness

pretentiousness

counterfeitings

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Noun

Plural for a practical joke or mischievous trick

practical jokes

monkey business

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Noun

Plural for a joke or an amusing story

double entendres

shaggy dog stories

practical jokes

shaggy-dog stories

acknowledgement^UK

acknowledgment^US

double meanings

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Noun

Plural for the condition or quality of being phony or fake

Noun

Plural for news circulating in the form of rumor or gossip

Verb

To deceive or fool someone

plays a jest on

plays a joke on

plays a prank on

plays a practical joke on

takes for a ride

puts one over on

plays games with

pulls a fast one on

pulls a swifty on

pulls one's leg

leads up the garden path

pulls the wool over someone's eyes

does a number on

takes advantage of

takes to the cleaners

leads down the garden path

outmaneuvers^US

outmanoeuvres^UK

makes a fool of

gives someone a bum steer

pulls someone's leg

pulls a fast one

does the dirty on

gets the better of

puts on the wrong track

throws off the scent

sends on a wild goose chase

plays a trick on

propagandizes^US

propagandises^UK

plays for a sucker

runs rings round

sells a bill of goods to

steals a march on

plays a practical joke

makes rings round

makes a monkey out of

leads up garden path

puts on false front

puts up smoke screen

gives wrong information to

makes a sucker of

takes to cleaners

goes one better than

gives the wrong impression

sells a bill of goods

pulls wool over

does someone in the eye

plays for a fool

plays fast and loose with

gives the runaround

sends on a wild-goose chase

sells down the river

breaks the rules

gives bum steer

twists around your little finger

pulls someone's chain

puts someone on

gets a rise out of

takes a rise out of

takes the mickey

tells a falsehood

tells an untruth

tells a terminological inexactitude

stretches the truth

makes up a story

concocts a story

tells a white lie

forswears oneself

says something untrue

bears false witness

commits perjury

puts up a front

perjures oneself

departs from the truth

invents a story

stabs in the back

plays someone false

breaks faith with

interferes with

does someone dirty

worms one's way out of

beats around the bush

slips something over on

bends the rules

stacks the cards

hits below the belt

stretches the rules

pulls something funny

puts someone up to something

lies under oath

makes somebody look an idiot

makes a monkey of

arranges fraudulently

commits treason

lays a trap for

finds a loophole in

discountenances

exploits a loophole in

catches on the hop

throws off balance

puts someone off their stride

sweeps off feet

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

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