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A trick or an action intended to deceive
Sly or cunning intelligence
A lie or falsehood, or the act of lying or concocting a falsehood
Something that is amusing or causes laughter
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason
The action of evading something
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Noun
▲
A trick or an action intended to deceive
trick
artifice
stratagem
ploy
scheme
wile
device
dodge
manoeuvre
UK
subterfuge
deception
machination
maneuver
US
contrivance
gambit
con
plot
tactic
gimmick
hoax
deceit
scam
expedient
move
sham
feint
shift
game
jig
imposture
stunt
blind
wheeze
angle
smokescreen
shenanigans
scenario
twist
switch
curveball
game plan
cunning plan
booby trap
red herring
oldest trick in the book
flimflam
fetch
sleight
shenanigan
play
fraud
plan
knack
juggle
cheat
intrigue
trickery
swindle
pretence
UK
pretense
US
method
design
racket
sting
strategy
bluff
means
measure
bunco
setup
put-on
lurk
con trick
conspiracy
course of action
fake
set-up
sleight of hand
pretext
fastie
chicanery
trap
hustle
grift
rort
craft
line of action
canard
confidence trick
programme
UK
program
US
sharp practice
way
cabal
cheating
double-dealing
wangle
action
arrangement
snare
funny business
humbug
sell
flanker
fast one
step
put-up job
cover
schlenter
front
masquerade
facade
codology
chicane
façade
fix
tactics
plan of action
system
snow job
misrepresentation
hanky-panky
fast shuffle
maneuvering
US
shell game
manoeuvring
UK
blueprint
rig
fiddle
policy
decoy
finesse
kidology
course
instrument
duplicity
brainchild
imposition
master plan
tack
craftiness
frame-up
dishonesty
leg-pull
show
dirty trick
project
covin
charade
rip-off
pretension
machinations
con game
practice
skullduggery
gamesmanship
resort
evasion
lie
enterprise
invention
recourse
resource
distraction
bait
bunko
approach
spoof
stall
caper
expediency
loophole
prank
secret plan
manipulation
idea
monkey business
stopgap
duping
cunning
refuge
fraudulence
illusion
hoodwinking
swindling
disguise
mask
secret
procedure
legerdemain
skulduggery
Trojan horse
wiles
posturing
deviousness
act
underhandedness
operation
guise
scheming
guile
knavery
suggestion
dissimulation
jugglery
dirty work
semblance
artfulness
slyness
hocus-pocus
jiggery-pokery
airs
venture
pose
smoke and mirrors
catch
false show
false front
veil
little game
impersonation
playacting
collusion
make-believe
diddle
proposition
ground plan
shakedown
medium
escapade
makeshift
screen
cloak
delusion
jive
ambush
take-in
whitewash
toils
treachery
swizzle
initiative
substitute
blackmail
complot
frame
demarche
shuffle
undertaking
bamboozlement
embezzlement
wrong
option
diversion
path
unscrupulousness
tool
slant
plotting
methodology
formula
hokum
distractor
sellout
line
sport
allurement
recipe
planning
lure
quackery
sophistry
fakery
agency
confidence game
smoke screen
diversionary tactic
possibility
alternative
joke
dirty pool
appearance
cover-up
shady deal
falsehood
affectation
monkeyshines
agenda
veneer
management
fourberie
mode
display
song and dance
claim
face
proceeding
schtick
feigning
false pretense
effect
false display
false appearance
bait and switch
road map
outward appearance
grand design
camouflage
equivocation
antic
feat
irresistible bait
distortion
kicker
winning move
duck
creation
charlatanry
cunningness
improvisation
plant
jazz
baloney
swizz
insincerity
innovation
cozening
hoaxing
extortion
sanctimoniousness
hidden danger
bit
scene
concoction
clever move
exploitation
deceitfulness
deed
mock attack
roguery
coinage
sweet talk
soft soap
stealing
struggle
dupery
tricks
hypocrisy
contraption
appliance
cant
snow
jiving
wrinkle
subversion
falsity
movement
gin
Tartufferie
cover up
run around
beguilement
horseplay
falseness
pitfall
double-cross
one-upmanship
deceptiveness
bill of goods
crafty designs
draft
US
draught
UK
crooked deal
temptation
hook
dragnet
inveiglement
enticement
seducement
snag
phoneyness
motion
double cross
conniving
mere show
crookedness
stratagems
bit of sharp practice
piece of deception
loss-leader
shtick
likeness
instrumentality
false colors
shifting
fake out
lies
propaganda
intention
come-on
solution
secret scheme
perfidy
countermine
counterplot
treacherousness
disloyalty
furtiveness
wire-pulling
surreptitiousness
waffle
talk
verbiage
nonsense
double-crossing
empty talk
dealing
hypocritical talk
hypocritical behaviour
deal
jest
promotion
aid
fun
apparatus
concern
publicity device
eye-catching novelty
counterfeit
fixture
simulacrum
showing
simulation
air
falsification
profession
imitation
dumb act
fit-up
quick fix
honeytrap
proposal
attempt
progress
effort
misleading talk
process
bread and circuses
bread and games
disposition
deviation
disturbance
commotion
interruption
road
thought
manner
technique
avenue
moves
manoeuvres
UK
plans
campaign
logistics
-gate
attention-grabber
hot air
submission
animus
purpose
route
conduct
routine
mechanism
style
choice
regimen
maneuvers
US
dirty tricks
curve ball
false face
false clue
fool's errand
false trail
wild-goose chase
misleading clue
kite
boondoggle
treatment
projection
praxis
exercise
behaviour
UK
protocol
set of tactics
game plans
battle plans
workflow
pattern
palace intrigue
military science
behavior
US
drill
barratry
monkeyshine
crime
criminality
string
villainy
big picture
foul play
name
roadmap
modus operandi
mode of conduct
MO
method of working
mode of behaviour
red tape
bad deed
dirty deeds
action plan
net
hoky-poky
cruel act
snake oil
wooden nickel
goal-setting
web
quagmire
entanglement
morass
mummery
costume
personation
color
US
colour
UK
revel
masking
tanglement
quicksand
meshes
bilk
ride
shuck
mare's nest
play-acting
noose
fashion
ramp
entrapment
graft
parody
fraudulent scheme
faking
travesty
fabrication
channel
vehicle
organ
ministry
agent
intermediary
auspices
factor
instrumentation
ways and means
inducement
mockery
forgery
carrot
dupe
posing
garb
acting
shuffling
ostentation
posture
image
snivel
impression
gold brick
machinery
equipment
stepping-stone
drawing card
measures
hosing
overcharging
rip
farce
pantomime
jape
corruption
daylight robbery
conduit
trumped-up charge
false charge
rip off
bad deal
phoniness
dissembling
sucker game
bad buy
rug pull
attraction
squeeze
lay
theft
illegality
lawlessness
burlesque
fiction
smoke
pretentiousness
pageant
mimicry
ensnarement
push
paraphernalia
organisation
UK
power
organization
US
connivance
complicity
practical joke
draw
illegal scheme
illegal enterprise
criminal activity
reproduction
copy
illicit scheme
incentive
booster
stoolie
blow off
sitting duck
stick
beard
nark
stool pigeon
shill
mock-up
dummy
phoney
UK
sweetener
bribe
secret understanding
lookalike
phony
US
magnet
invitation
pinchbeck
knock-off
pirate
knowledge
agreement
involvement
consent
approval
skunk
guiltiness
guilt
collaboration
cahoots
flam
diddling
call
form
interest
pseudo
four-flusher
junque
replica
mousetrap
how
channels
fraudulent artifice
fradulent artifice
devices
campaigning
generalship
siren song
turn-on
plan of attack
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“A last-minute offer may be a
ruse
or a bluff, but I'm the guy who ought to make that call.”
Noun
▲
Sly or cunning intelligence
guile
cunning
craftiness
artifice
deceit
duplicity
craft
wiliness
dishonesty
deception
fraud
cheating
deviousness
slyness
deceitfulness
foxiness
trickery
artfulness
crookedness
cunningness
guilefulness
chicanery
dissimulation
dissembling
fakery
deceptiveness
crookery
dupery
cozenage
treachery
subtlety
underhandedness
sneakiness
canniness
skulduggery
slickness
cageyness
caginess
trickiness
subtleness
wiles
tricks
knavery
gamesmanship
ruses
maneuvers
US
manoeuvres
UK
ploys
schemes
cleverness
shrewdness
stratagems
subterfuges
knavishness
ingenuity
astuteness
dissemblance
jive
double-dealing
sharp practice
double-cross
dirty dealing
dirty work
subterfuge
scheme
strategy
evasion
tactics
scheming
jiggery-pokery
intrigue
contrivance
hanky-panky
stratagem
disingenuity
funny business
monkey business
artifices
gambits
dodges
devices
contrivances
strategems
every trick in the book
palace intrigue
art
cunning stratagems
skill
expertise
complexity
skilfulness
sagacity
adroitness
artfullness
indirection
slipperiness
falsehood
shadiness
insidiousness
fraudulence
infamy
shiftiness
corruption
chicane
stealing
perfidiousness
infidelity
bunk
falsity
faithlessness
hocus-pocus
unscrupulousness
criminality
mendacity
perfidy
graft
racket
swindle
flimflam
rascality
fourberie
improbity
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Noun
▲
A lie or falsehood, or the act of lying or concocting a falsehood
fabrication
lie
falsehood
untruth
fib
falsity
story
fiction
prevarication
whopper
falsification
mendacity
fable
deception
porky
fantasy
tale
myth
taradiddle
tarradiddle
sham
pretence
UK
exaggeration
yarn
pretense
US
figment
deceit
pretext
concoction
bulldust
hogwash
phantasy
wile
trickery
line
rumor
US
rumour
UK
stratagem
jazz
forgery
smoke
fake
artefact
UK
artifact
US
claptrap
jive
opus
work
fairy tale
trumped-up story
tall story
fairy story
piece of fiction
half-truth
made-up story
white lie
tall tale
flight of fancy
red herring
barefaced lie
terminological inexactitude
little white lie
cock and bull story
departure from the truth
figment of the imagination
porky pie
pork pie
cock-and-bull story
song and dance
invention
fake news
dissimulation
alternative fact
hoax
dissembling
shamming
duplicity
fraudulence
fraud
subterfuge
deceitfulness
artifice
lying
dishonesty
treachery
hypocrisy
guise
fakery
kidology
misrepresentation
false colours
lack of veracity
false excuse
misinformation
disinformation
canard
crock
bunk
remarkable story
big lie
distortion
one for the birds
propaganda
perjury
gossip
economy with the truth
conspiracy theory
inaccuracy
imagination
fancy
untruism
untruthfulness
misstatement
fish story
illusion
lies
shaggy-dog story
figment of imagination
fallacy
urban legend
urban myth
error
delusion
detraction
hyperbole
falseness
fibbery
false report
false statement
angler's tale
pishogue
whisper
fibbing
contrivance
quibbling
whimsy
phantom of the mind
creature of the imagination
creation of the brain
wildest dream
guile
nancy story
fudging
excuse
evasiveness
equivocation
spinach
backbiting
evasion
scandal
erroneousness
spuriousness
baloney
persuasion
feigning
unreliability
rant
romance
misjudgement
misjudgment
nonsense
fallaciousness
deviation from the truth
improvisation
disregard for the facts
prepared speech
misconception
fibs
creativity
misbelief
hooey
unrealism
hallucination
incorrectness
spin
sophistry
calumny
purple prose
superstition
cover-up
half truth
apologue
creation
chicanery
misreport
obfuscation
made up story
mistakenness
wrongness
speciousness
false rumour
false information
mistaken belief
false notion
fictitious story
bending of the truth
false trail
bum steer
misleading information
play-acting
daydreaming
charade
dream
pretending
unreality
dreaming
romancing
self-deception
masquerade
narrative
account
legend
disguise
pretentiousness
role-playing
pageant
playacting
pretension
game
make-believe
report
saga
novelette
novella
sketch
parable
history
anecdote
spiel
adventure
lore
folklore
mythos
prose
reminiscence
potboiler
rigmarole
song
folk tale
sea story
traveller's tale
folk story
short story
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Noun
▲
Something that is amusing or causes laughter
yuk
joke
jest
quip
witticism
gag
wisecrack
pleasantry
crack
funny
sally
josh
boffola
laugh
boffo
giggle
rib
boff
waggery
jape
nifty
drollery
pun
fun
prank
one-liner
yuck
hoax
comeback
rejoinder
wile
bon mot
double entendre
witty remark
play on words
shaggy dog story
funny remark
flash of wit
banter
epigram
repartee
riposte
gibe
retort
humor
US
humour
UK
remark
rib-tickler
jibe
aphorism
equivoque
paronomasia
return
anecdote
smart remark
badinage
barb
dig
clever remark
funny story
in-joke
clowning
spoof
amusement
jeer
zinger
whimsy
buffoonery
raillery
counter
insult
aside
Atticism
insinuation
slur
slight
comedy
retaliation
taunt
amusing tale
ha-ha
cutting remark
apophthegm
facetiousness
whimsicality
foolishness
witty comment
sneer
affront
play
mot
hoot
entertainment
wit
joking
levity
parody
quirk
merriment
yarn
squib
practical joke
good-natured remark
sardonic remark
smart crack
pithy remark
lark
nonsense
gem
killer
chestnut
absurdity
ridiculousness
blague
offence
UK
burlesque
offense
US
satire
counterattack
mockery
witty communication
knee-slapper
thigh-slapper
witty poem
nice turn of phrase
witty saying
jeu d'esprit
old chestnut
shaggy-dog story
answer
response
reply
replication
acknowledgement
UK
antiphon
lip
respond
reprisal
topper
cooler
acknowledgment
US
snappy comeback
back talk
parting shot
back answer
innuendo
wordplay
calembour
pivot
clinch
double meaning
clench
quibble
amphibology
carriwitchet
conundrum
nick
whim
pundigrion
jeu de mots
conceit
ambiguity
more ❯
Noun
▲
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason
pretext
excuse
pretence
UK
ploy
cover
device
grounds
pretense
US
alibi
simulation
stratagem
subterfuge
con
feint
routine
stall
cop-out
cover story
cover-up
ostensible reason
red herring
supposed grounds
alleged reason
false excuse
fig leaf
song and dance
Noun
▲
The action of evading something
evasion
avoidance
dodging
elusion
shunning
circumvention
ducking
eluding
escape
shirking
cop-out
cunning
deception
fudging
pretext
shuffling
artifice
bypassing
equivocation
eschewal
eschewing
out
prevarication
shaking
sidestepping
subterfuge
trickery
bilking
evasiveness
go-by
obliqueness
sophism
sophistry
ditch
dodge
equivocating
evading
excuse
fugiviteness
fugivity
jive
lie
quibble
routine
run-around
shift
skirting
slip
stall
stonewall
stonewalling
trick
getting out of
fancy footwork
finding a way round
refraining
abstention
refrainment
bypass
holding off
escaping
escapism
circumventing
nonparticipation
retreat
flight
keeping away
steering clear
body swerve
steering clear of
come-off
difficulty
delay
detour
diversion
postponement
inertia
roundabout
hack
loophole
sidestep
workaround
more ❯
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