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- red herring
collapse - any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
- a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color related words >
- anguille,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- blind,
- caviar,
- chicanery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- eel,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- fish,
- fish eggs,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- kipper,
- kippered salmon,
- knavery,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- move,
- plot,
- ploy,
- poisson,
- racket,
- roe,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- seafood,
- shift,
- sleight,
- smoked herring,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- trick,
- trickery,
- wile,
- wily device
- dirty trick
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- an unkind or aggressive trick related words >
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty pool,
- dirty work,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- falseheartedness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- gambit,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- hocus-pocus,
- joker,
- juggle,
- pass,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- ploy,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trick,
- wile
- abomination,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- baseness,
- blind,
- chicanery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- degradation,
- design,
- device,
- disgrace,
- dodge,
- error,
- evil,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- infamy,
- iniquity,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- knavishness,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- moral turpitude,
- move,
- obliquity,
- peccancy,
- plot,
- ploy,
- racket,
- rascality,
- rascalry,
- red herring,
- reprobacy,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scampishness,
- scandal,
- scheme,
- scoundrelism,
- shame,
- shift,
- sin,
- sleight,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- trick,
- trickery,
- turpitude,
- vileness,
- villainousness,
- villainy,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wrong
- ruse
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- a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) related words >
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jig,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- move,
- pass,
- plot,
- ploy,
- pretext,
- racket,
- red herring,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- trick,
- trickery,
- wile,
- wily device
- tactic
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- a plan for attaining a particular goal related words >
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- blind,
- campaign,
- caper,
- chicanery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- effort,
- engineering,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- gambit,
- game,
- generalship,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- improvisation,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- little game,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- military operations,
- move,
- orchestration,
- pis aller,
- plan,
- plans,
- plot,
- ploy,
- racket,
- red herring,
- resort,
- resource,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- sleight,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- subterfuge,
- tactics,
- tactual,
- temporary expedient,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- wile,
- wily device,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- con,
- con game,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cute trick,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- defrauding,
- design,
- device,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feint,
- fetch,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- guile,
- gyp,
- hanky-panky,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- misrepresentation,
- monkey business,
- move,
- overreaching,
- plot,
- ploy,
- racket,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scam,
- scheme,
- sell,
- sham,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- sleight,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- surreptitiousness,
- swindle,
- tactic,
- trapping,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- underhandedness,
- wile,
- wily device
- Prospero,
- airiness,
- appearance,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- conjuration,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- delusiveness,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- escamotage,
- fallaciousness,
- false appearance,
- false light,
- false show,
- falseness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- gambit,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- hanky-panky,
- hocus-pocus,
- hokey-pokey,
- idealization,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- immateriality,
- jiggery-pokery,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- juggling,
- legerdemain,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- monkey business,
- mumbo jumbo,
- pass,
- ploy,
- prestidigitation,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- shift,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- sleight,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- trick,
- trickery,
- unactuality,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- wile
- adroitness,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- catch,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deftness,
- design,
- device,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hocus-pocus,
- intrigue,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- move,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- play,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prowess,
- racket,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- skill,
- skulduggery,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- tactic,
- trick,
- trickery,
- underhand dealing,
- wile,
- wily device
- ploy
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- a maneuver in a game or conversation related words >
- Byzantine intrigues,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- backstairs influence,
- bag of tricks,
- bat,
- bender,
- binge,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- bout,
- bust,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- catch,
- celebration,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- connections,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deals,
- debauch,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- drinking bout,
- escapade,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fling,
- gambit,
- game,
- games,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hocus-pocus,
- influence peddling,
- intrigue,
- intrigues,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lark,
- little game,
- lobbying,
- lobbyism,
- maneuver,
- move,
- orgy,
- pass,
- play,
- plot,
- ploys,
- racket,
- randan,
- randy,
- red herring,
- revel,
- ropes,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemes,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- spree,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- strings,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- tear,
- toot,
- trick,
- trickery,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wingding,
- wire-pulling,
- wires
- gambit
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- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker related words >
- alpha,
- approach,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- assay,
- attempt,
- bag of tricks,
- bid,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- breaking-in,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- crack,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- effort,
- endeavor,
- essay,
- expedient,
- experiment,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- first,
- first blush,
- first glance,
- first impression,
- first inning,
- first lap,
- first move,
- first round,
- first sight,
- first stage,
- first step,
- fling,
- game,
- gimmick,
- go,
- googly,
- grift,
- hocus-pocus,
- initial,
- initiative,
- intrigue,
- jig,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- le premier pas,
- lick,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- move,
- offer,
- opening move,
- pass,
- plan,
- play,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prime,
- primitiveness,
- primitivity,
- racket,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- shot,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stab,
- step,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- strong bid,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- tentative,
- trial,
- trial and error,
- trick,
- trickery,
- try,
- undertaking,
- warming-up,
- whack,
- whizzer,
- wile,
- wily device
- strategy
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- the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war related words >
- aerial tactics,
- airborne tactics,
- applied tactics,
- approach,
- armored tactics,
- arrangement,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- attack,
- barrier tactics,
- blind,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- calculation,
- cavalry tactics,
- charting,
- chicanery,
- conception,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- defensive strategy,
- design,
- device,
- disposition,
- diversion,
- dodge,
- encirclement,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- figuring,
- fire tactics,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- gambit,
- game,
- game plan,
- gimmick,
- graphing,
- grift,
- ground plan,
- guidelines,
- idea,
- infantry tactics,
- infiltration,
- intention,
- intrigue,
- investment,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- layout,
- lineup,
- little game,
- long-range plan,
- maneuver,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- method,
- methodology,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- move,
- operations research,
- organization,
- pincers movement,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- plot,
- ploy,
- policy,
- prearrangement,
- procedure,
- program,
- program of action,
- project,
- racket,
- rationalization,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scenario,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- setup,
- shift,
- shock tactics,
- sleight,
- stratagem,
- strategic plan,
- subterfuge,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactic,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- trick,
- trickery,
- way,
- wile,
- wily device,
- working plan
- trickery
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- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way related words >
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- bravery,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- collusion,
- conjuration,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- escamotage,
- evasiveness,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- festoons,
- fetch,
- finery,
- flippancy,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- frivolity,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gambit,
- game,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gimmick,
- gingerbread,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hocus-pocus,
- hokey-pokey,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jiggery-pokery,
- jugglery,
- juggling,
- knavery,
- legerdemain,
- levity,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- merriment,
- monkey business,
- move,
- mumbo jumbo,
- paste,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- pinchbeck,
- playfulness,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prankishness,
- pranksomeness,
- prestidigitation,
- racket,
- red herring,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- slyness,
- sportiveness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- superfluity,
- swindling,
- tactic,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- trumpery,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- waggery,
- waggishness,
- wile,
- wily device
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- baseness,
- bickering,
- blind,
- bluff,
- boggling,
- bosey,
- captiousness,
- catch,
- caviling,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chouse,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- degradation,
- design,
- device,
- deviousness,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- dodging,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fencing,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hairsplitting,
- hanky-panky,
- hedging,
- hocus-pocus,
- intrigue,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- knavishness,
- little game,
- logic-chopping,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- moral turpitude,
- move,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- racket,
- rascality,
- rascalry,
- red herring,
- reprobacy,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scampishness,
- scheme,
- scoundrelism,
- scurvy trick,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- sophistry,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- surreptitiousness,
- tactic,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- turpitude,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- vileness,
- villainousness,
- villainy,
- wile,
- wily device
- abracadabra,
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- anagoge,
- anagogics,
- anthroposophy,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- babble,
- babblement,
- bag of tricks,
- balderdash,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bombast,
- bosey,
- cabala,
- cabalism,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- claptrap,
- conjuration,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- escamotage,
- esotericism,
- esoterics,
- esoterism,
- esotery,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gambit,
- gammon,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gimmick,
- gobbledygook,
- googly,
- hanky-panky,
- hokey-pokey,
- humbug,
- incantation,
- jabber,
- jargon,
- jiggery-pokery,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- juggling,
- legerdemain,
- magic formula,
- magic words,
- monkey business,
- mumbo jumbo,
- mystery,
- mysticism,
- mystification,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- occultism,
- open sesame,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- pass,
- ploy,
- prate,
- prattle,
- prestidigitation,
- rant,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- skimble-skamble,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stratagem,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- subterfuge,
- symbolics,
- symbolism,
- trash,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vaporing,
- waffling,
- wile,
- yoga,
- yogeeism,
- yogism
- Italian hand,
- Machiavellianism,
- acuteness,
- allure,
- ambidexterity,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- beguile,
- bestow,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- captivate,
- catch,
- charm,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cleverness,
- consecrate to,
- conspiracy,
- consume,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dedicate to,
- design,
- device,
- devote,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- draw,
- duplicity,
- employ,
- enchant,
- expedient,
- expend,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fascinate,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- fleet,
- foxiness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- give over to,
- give to,
- googly,
- grift,
- guile,
- hocus-pocus,
- improbity,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- low cunning,
- magnetize,
- maneuver,
- move,
- one-upmanship,
- pass,
- plot,
- ploy,
- put in,
- racket,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- resourcefulness,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- spend,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- tactic,
- take,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- two-facedness,
- use up,
- wariness,
- while,
- while away,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wit
- coup
collapse
- a brilliant and notable success related words >
- abduction,
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- adventure,
- answer,
- apprehension,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- blind,
- blow,
- breath,
- capture,
- catch,
- catching,
- chicanery,
- collaring,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- course of action,
- crack,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- dealings,
- deceit,
- deed,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- doing,
- doings,
- dragnet,
- effort,
- endeavor,
- enterprise,
- expedient,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- fakement,
- feat,
- feint,
- fetch,
- flash,
- forcible seizure,
- gambit,
- game,
- gest,
- gimmick,
- go,
- grab,
- grabbing,
- grift,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- hold,
- improvisation,
- instant,
- intrigue,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- job,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- kidnapping,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- little game,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- microsecond,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- move,
- nabbing,
- operation,
- overt act,
- passage,
- performance,
- picking up,
- pis aller,
- plot,
- ploy,
- power grab,
- prehension,
- proceeding,
- production,
- racket,
- red herring,
- res gestae,
- resort,
- resource,
- running in,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- sec,
- second,
- seizure,
- seizure of power,
- shake,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- sleight,
- snatch,
- snatching,
- solution,
- split second,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- stunt,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- taking in,
- taking into custody,
- temporary expedient,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tick,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trice,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- turn,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- two shakes,
- undertaking,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wink,
- work,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition,
- works
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- alibi,
- answer,
- apology,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cabal,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cloak,
- collusion,
- color,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- countermove,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- course of action,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covin,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deep-laid plot,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- effort,
- engineering,
- excuse,
- expedient,
- facade,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- frame-up,
- front,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- gloss,
- googly,
- grift,
- guise,
- handle,
- hocus-pocus,
- improvisation,
- intrigue,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- knavery,
- lame excuse,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- little game,
- locus standi,
- lure,
- machination,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- mask,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- ostensible motive,
- pass,
- pis aller,
- plan,
- play,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- racket,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- resort,
- resource,
- rigging,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- screen,
- scurvy trick,
- semblance,
- shake-up,
- sham,
- shift,
- show,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- smoke screen,
- solution,
- stalking-horse,
- step,
- stopgap,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- underplot,
- varnish,
- veil,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- conspiracy
collapse
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
- a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose related words >
- Anschluss,
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- addition,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- assimilation,
- association,
- blend,
- blending,
- blind,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collectivity,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combine,
- combined effort,
- combo,
- complicity,
- complot,
- composition,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- concomitance,
- concordance,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confluence,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- conn,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- consilience,
- consolidation,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- cooperation,
- correspondence,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deep-laid plot,
- design,
- device,
- dirty work,
- disloyalty,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- encompassment,
- engineering,
- enosis,
- expedient,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falsity,
- federalization,
- federation,
- feint,
- fetch,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- foul play,
- frame-up,
- fusion,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- hookup,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- junction,
- junta,
- knavery,
- league,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- marriage,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- move,
- package,
- package deal,
- parasitism,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- practice,
- racket,
- red herring,
- rigging,
- ruse,
- saprophytism,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- sedition,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- simultaneity,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- solidification,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- symbiosis,
- synchronism,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synergy,
- synthesis,
- tactic,
- tie-up,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- treason,
- trick,
- trickery,
- underhand dealing,
- underplot,
- unification,
- union,
- united action,
- web of intrigue,
- wedding,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling
- intrigue
collapse
- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- a clandestine love affair
- cause to be interested or curious related words >
- Byzantine intrigues,
- absorb,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- amor,
- amour,
- angle,
- appeal,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- attract,
- backstairs influence,
- becharm,
- beguile,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- brew,
- cabal,
- captivate,
- carry away,
- cast a spell,
- charm,
- chicanery,
- cogitate,
- collogue,
- collude,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- concoct,
- confederacy,
- connections,
- connivance,
- connive,
- conspiracy,
- conspire,
- contrivance,
- contrive,
- contriving,
- cook up,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- cuckoldry,
- cute trick,
- deals,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deep-laid plot,
- design,
- device,
- devise,
- disingenuousness,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- enchant,
- engineer,
- engineering,
- enrapture,
- enravish,
- entanglement,
- enthrall,
- entrance,
- eternal triangle,
- excite,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- fascinate,
- feint,
- fetch,
- finagle,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- flirtation,
- forbidden love,
- forswearing,
- frame,
- frame up,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- gambit,
- game,
- games,
- gerrymander,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- hypnotize,
- illicit love,
- infatuate,
- infidelity,
- influence peddling,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- intimacy,
- intrigues,
- jockey,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lay a plot,
- liaison,
- little game,
- lobbying,
- lobbyism,
- love affair,
- machinate,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulate,
- manipulation,
- mesmerize,
- move,
- operate,
- perjury,
- pique,
- play games,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- ploys,
- practice,
- pull strings,
- racket,
- red herring,
- rig,
- rigging,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- ropes,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- schemes,
- scheming,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- sleight,
- spell,
- spellbind,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- strings,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- titillate,
- transport,
- triangle,
- trick,
- trickery,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underplot,
- unfaithfulness,
- unfrankness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vamp,
- wangle,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wires,
- witch
- expedient
collapse
- a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
- serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
- appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" related words >
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- advantageous,
- advisable,
- agency,
- answer,
- applicable,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- auspicious,
- banausic,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- blind,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- chicanery,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- commodious,
- congruous,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- convenient,
- correct,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- decent,
- demarche,
- dernier ressort,
- design,
- desirable,
- device,
- devices,
- dodge,
- effective,
- effort,
- elegant,
- employable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expediency,
- expedients,
- fair,
- fakement,
- famous,
- favorable,
- feasible,
- feint,
- felicitous,
- fetch,
- fine,
- fit,
- fitten,
- fitting,
- fortunate,
- fructuous,
- functional,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- going between,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grift,
- happy,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- hope,
- improvisation,
- influence,
- instrument,
- instrumentality,
- intermediation,
- intrigue,
- judicious,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- kind,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- laudable,
- likely,
- little game,
- lucky,
- machination,
- machinery,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- maneuvers,
- manipulation,
- means,
- measure,
- mechanism,
- mediation,
- medium,
- meet,
- move,
- nice,
- noble,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- opportune,
- pertinent,
- pis aller,
- pleasant,
- plot,
- ploy,
- politic,
- political influence,
- possible,
- practicable,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatical,
- profitable,
- proper,
- propitious,
- providential,
- prudent,
- racket,
- recommendable,
- recommended,
- recourse,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- regal,
- resort,
- resource,
- right,
- ripe,
- royal,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- seasonable,
- seemly,
- service,
- serviceable,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- skillful,
- sleight,
- solution,
- sortable,
- sound,
- splendid,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- suitable,
- tactic,
- tactical,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tactics,
- temporary expedient,
- timely,
- to be desired,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- well-timed,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wise,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition,
- worthwhile
- feint
collapse
- any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
- deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot" related words >
- acting,
- aerial tactics,
- affectation,
- airborne tactics,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- applied tactics,
- armored tactics,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- bag of tricks,
- barrier tactics,
- befooling,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bosey,
- catch,
- cavalry tactics,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- commend,
- compliment,
- congratulate,
- conspiracy,
- contemn,
- contrivance,
- counterfeit,
- coup,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cut,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- defensive strategy,
- delusion,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distraction,
- diversion,
- dodge,
- encirclement,
- excuse,
- expedient,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false move,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fast deal,
- feigning,
- felicitate,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fire tactics,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gambit,
- game,
- gilt,
- gimmick,
- gloss,
- googly,
- grift,
- guise,
- handle,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- home thrust,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- infantry tactics,
- infiltration,
- intrigue,
- investment,
- jab,
- jig,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lame excuse,
- little game,
- locus standi,
- lunge,
- make-believe,
- maneuver,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- move,
- ostensible motive,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pass,
- pincers movement,
- play,
- playacting,
- plot,
- ploy,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- racket,
- recommend,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- representation,
- resort,
- ruse,
- salute,
- scheme,
- screen,
- scurvy trick,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shift,
- shock tactics,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stab,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- swing,
- tactic,
- tactics,
- thrust,
- trick,
- trickery,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whizzer,
- wile,
- wily device,
- window dressing
- curve
collapse
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- arc,
- arch,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bias,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- bow,
- bowl,
- branch off,
- branching off,
- cast,
- catacaustic,
- catch,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- change of pace,
- change the bearing,
- change-up,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- chuck,
- chunk,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumference,
- coil,
- compass,
- conchoid,
- corner,
- crook,
- curl,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curve-ball,
- declination,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- depart from,
- departure,
- design,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- device,
- deviousness,
- diacaustic,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- digress,
- digression,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- discursion,
- disperse,
- distort,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dodge,
- dogleg,
- dome,
- double,
- downcurve,
- drift,
- drifting,
- ellipse,
- embow,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- fast deal,
- fastball,
- feint,
- festoon,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- flex,
- fling,
- flip,
- forward pass,
- gambit,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- hairpin,
- heave,
- heel,
- hocus-pocus,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- hurl,
- hyperbola,
- incurvate,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurve,
- indirection,
- inflect,
- inflection,
- joker,
- juggle,
- knuckleball,
- lateral,
- lateral pass,
- lituus,
- lob,
- loop,
- obliquity,
- outcurve,
- parabola,
- pass,
- peg,
- pererration,
- pitch,
- ploy,
- pull,
- put,
- rambling,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- refract,
- retroflex,
- rondure,
- round,
- ruse,
- sag,
- scatter,
- scheme,
- screwball,
- scurvy trick,
- serve,
- service,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- shot-put,
- shy,
- sinker,
- sinus,
- skew,
- slant,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slider,
- sling,
- spiral,
- spitball,
- spitter,
- stratagem,
- straying,
- subterfuge,
- swag,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- throw,
- toss,
- tracery,
- trend,
- trick,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turning,
- twist,
- upcurve,
- variation,
- vary,
- vault,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wile,
- wind,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- affair,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- answer,
- apparatus,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- article,
- artifact,
- artifice,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- catastrophe,
- catch,
- characterization,
- cheat,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- color,
- complication,
- concern,
- conspiracy,
- continuity,
- contraption,
- contrivance,
- counterfeit,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- demarche,
- denouement,
- design,
- development,
- device,
- dingus,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- dofunny,
- dohickey,
- dojigger,
- dojiggy,
- domajig,
- domajigger,
- doodad,
- dowhacky,
- effort,
- episode,
- eppes,
- etwas,
- expedient,
- fable,
- fake,
- fakement,
- falling action,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- flumadiddle,
- fun,
- gadget,
- gambit,
- game,
- gigamaree,
- gimcrack,
- gizmo,
- googly,
- grift,
- hand tool,
- hickey,
- hocus-pocus,
- hook,
- hootenanny,
- hootmalalie,
- humbug,
- implement,
- imposture,
- improvisation,
- incident,
- instrument,
- intrigue,
- invention,
- jest,
- jigger,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- line,
- little game,
- local color,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- material thing,
- means,
- measure,
- mechanical device,
- method,
- mood,
- motif,
- move,
- movement,
- mythos,
- object,
- pass,
- peripeteia,
- pis aller,
- plan,
- plot,
- ploy,
- power tool,
- precision tool,
- quelque chose,
- racket,
- recognition,
- red herring,
- resort,
- resource,
- rising action,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- secondary plot,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- slant,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- snare,
- solution,
- something,
- speed tool,
- sport,
- step,
- stopgap,
- story,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- subterfuge,
- switch,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- thing,
- thingum,
- thingumabob,
- thingumadad,
- thingumadoodle,
- thingumajig,
- thingumajigger,
- thingumaree,
- thingummy,
- tone,
- tool,
- topic,
- trap,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- twist,
- utensil,
- whatchy,
- widget,
- wile,
- wily device,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- untruthful
collapse
- not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person" related words >
- artful,
- calculating,
- crafty,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- equivocal,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- forsworn,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- insincere,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- misleading,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- roguish,
- scheming,
- shifty,
- truthless,
- uncandid,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- unveracious,
- wrong
- subterfuge
collapse
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" related words >
- airtight secrecy,
- alibi,
- apology,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bickering,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boggling,
- bosey,
- burial,
- burying,
- calculated deception,
- captiousness,
- catch,
- caviling,
- cheat,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- circumvention,
- cloak,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- clouding,
- color,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- conning,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- craft,
- crypticness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- darkening,
- deceit,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double-dealing,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- evasiveness,
- excuse,
- expedient,
- facade,
- fakement,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fencing,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- fraud,
- front,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- gloss,
- googly,
- grift,
- guise,
- hairsplitting,
- hallucination,
- handle,
- hedging,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoodwinking,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- illusion,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- kidding,
- knavery,
- lame excuse,
- little game,
- locus standi,
- logic-chopping,
- maneuver,
- mask,
- masking,
- mirage,
- move,
- mystification,
- nit-picking,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostensible motive,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- phantasm,
- plot,
- ploy,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- pussyfooting,
- put-off,
- putting away,
- putting on,
- quibbling,
- racket,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- screen,
- screening,
- scurvy trick,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- self-deception,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shift,
- shifting,
- show,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- smoke screen,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- swindling,
- tactic,
- tergiversation,
- the dark,
- trichoschistism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- uncommunicativeness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- victimization,
- vision,
- wile,
- willful misconception,
- wily device,
- wishful thinking
- bunco
collapse
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property related words >
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- Machiavellianism,
- action,
- acuteness,
- ad hoc measure,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- ambidexterity,
- answer,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cabal,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- catch,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cleverness,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- countermove,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- course of action,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deep-laid plot,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicity,
- effort,
- engineering,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expedient,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- finagling,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foul play,
- foxiness,
- frame-up,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- guile,
- hocus-pocus,
- hyperelegance,
- improbity,
- improvisation,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- keenness,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- little game,
- low cunning,
- machination,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- one-upmanship,
- originality,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- pis aller,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretentiousness,
- proficiency,
- purism,
- quickness,
- racket,
- rascality,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- resort,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- rigging,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- scurvy trick,
- shake-up,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solution,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- subterfuge,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- supercherie,
- suppleness,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- trump,
- two-facedness,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- underplot,
- unnaturalness,
- wariness,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wit,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- pullback
collapse
- (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops); "the pullback is expected to be over 25,000 troops"
- a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back; "the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks" related words >
- avoidance,
- bitter-ender,
- conservative,
- cringe,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutback,
- disengagement,
- dodge,
- duck,
- evasion,
- fallback,
- flinch,
- fundamentalist,
- old liner,
- pullout,
- recoil,
- reculade,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- right-winger,
- rightist,
- rollback,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- tory,
- wince,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawment
- endearment
collapse
- the act of showing affection related words >
- craft
collapse
- a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- skill in an occupation or trade
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"
- make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool" related words >
- Italian hand,
- ability,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- aeroplane,
- aircraft,
- airmanship,
- animal cunning,
- argosy,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artisan work,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- bark,
- blind,
- boat,
- bottom,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- bucket,
- business,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- calling,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- chicanery,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- control,
- coordination,
- coup,
- craftiness,
- craftsmanship,
- craftwork,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deftness,
- design,
- device,
- deviousness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- dodge,
- duplicity,
- efficiency,
- expedient,
- expertise,
- expertness,
- fabricate,
- facility,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fashion,
- feint,
- fetch,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- flair,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- genius,
- gimmick,
- grace,
- grift,
- grip,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- handicraft,
- handiness,
- handiwork,
- hooker,
- horsemanship,
- hovercraft,
- hulk,
- hull,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- industrial art,
- industrial design,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- job,
- jugglery,
- keel,
- knavery,
- know-how,
- leviathan,
- lifework,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- little game,
- low cunning,
- make,
- maneuver,
- manual art,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- mechanics,
- mechanism,
- metalcraft,
- method,
- metier,
- mission,
- move,
- mystery,
- number,
- occupation,
- one-upmanship,
- packet,
- pawkiness,
- plane,
- plot,
- ploy,
- practical ability,
- practice,
- profession,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- pursuit,
- quickness,
- racket,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- rocket,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- scheme,
- science,
- seamanship,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- ship,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- sleight,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- spacecraft,
- spaceship,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- stonecraft,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- style,
- subterfuge,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tactic,
- talent,
- technic,
- technical brilliance,
- technical know-how,
- technical knowledge,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technics,
- technique,
- technology,
- timing,
- trade,
- treacherousness,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- tub,
- underhandedness,
- vessel,
- virtuosity,
- vocation,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- wariness,
- watercraft,
- wile,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- woodcraft,
- work,
- workmanship
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- circumvention,
- defense mechanism,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- eschewal,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- jink,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- prevention,
- refraining,
- runaround,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- the runaround,
- zigzag
- joker
collapse
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent; "when I demanded my money he showed me the joker in the contract"
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" related words >
- Adamite,
- Artful Dodger,
- Casanova,
- Don Juan,
- Machiavel,
- Machiavelli,
- Machiavellian,
- ace,
- actor,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- astonishment,
- bad boy,
- bag of tricks,
- bamboozler,
- banana,
- bastard,
- befuddler,
- beguiler,
- being,
- best bower,
- bill,
- bird,
- blind,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockbuster,
- blow,
- bluff,
- body,
- bomb,
- bombshell,
- booger,
- bosey,
- bottleneck,
- boundary condition,
- bower,
- buffoon,
- bugger,
- burlesquer,
- calendar,
- card,
- cards,
- caricaturist,
- cat,
- catch,
- catch-22,
- chap,
- character,
- charmer,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- clause,
- clown,
- clubs,
- comedian,
- comedienne,
- comic,
- companion bills amendment,
- condition,
- cordon,
- counterfeiter,
- creature,
- crux,
- curtain,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- customer,
- cutup,
- deceiver,
- deck,
- deluder,
- design,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- deuce,
- device,
- devil,
- diamonds,
- difficulty,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- dodge,
- dodger,
- donnee,
- double-dealer,
- dragnet clause,
- drawback,
- droll,
- duck,
- dummy,
- duper,
- earthling,
- earthshaker,
- elf,
- enacting clause,
- enchanter,
- enfant terrible,
- entrancer,
- epigrammatist,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- eye-opener,
- face cards,
- faker,
- farceur,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- feller,
- fellow,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fine print,
- flush,
- fooler,
- forger,
- full house,
- funmaker,
- funnyman,
- gag writer,
- gagman,
- gagster,
- gambit,
- gay deceiver,
- gimmick,
- given,
- googly,
- groundling,
- grounds,
- guy,
- hand,
- hang-up,
- hazard,
- head,
- hearts,
- hitch,
- hoaxer,
- hocus-pocus,
- hold-up bill,
- homo,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- human,
- human being,
- humorist,
- hurdle,
- hypnotizer,
- imp,
- individual,
- ironist,
- jack,
- jasper,
- jester,
- jilt,
- jilter,
- jokesmith,
- jokester,
- juggle,
- kicker,
- kidder,
- king,
- knave,
- lad,
- lampooner,
- left bower,
- leg-puller,
- life,
- limiting condition,
- little devil,
- little monkey,
- little rascal,
- living soul,
- madcap,
- man,
- mesmerizer,
- minx,
- mischief,
- mischief-maker,
- misleader,
- mortal,
- motion,
- nose,
- objection,
- obligation,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- omnibus bill,
- one,
- one small difficulty,
- pack,
- pair,
- parameter,
- parodist,
- party,
- pass,
- peripeteia,
- person,
- personage,
- personality,
- picture cards,
- pinch,
- pitfall,
- pixie,
- plagiarist,
- plagiarizer,
- playactor,
- playing cards,
- ploy,
- practical joker,
- prankster,
- prerequisite,
- privileged question,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- puck,
- punner,
- punster,
- queen,
- question,
- quipster,
- ragger,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- reparteeist,
- requisite,
- revelation,
- rider,
- rogue,
- role-player,
- round,
- rowdy,
- royal flush,
- rub,
- rubber,
- ruff,
- ruffian,
- ruse,
- satirist,
- saving clause,
- scamp,
- scapegrace,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- seducer,
- shift,
- shocker,
- sine qua non,
- single,
- singleton,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- small print,
- snag,
- somebody,
- someone,
- soul,
- spades,
- specification,
- spoofer,
- staggerer,
- startler,
- stipulation,
- straight,
- stratagem,
- string,
- stud,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- subterfuge,
- surprisal,
- surprise,
- surprise ending,
- surprise package,
- surprise party,
- switch,
- tease,
- teaser,
- tellurian,
- terms,
- terran,
- thunderbolt,
- thunderclap,
- trap,
- trey,
- trick,
- trickster,
- trump,
- twist,
- ultimatum,
- wag,
- wagwit,
- whereas,
- wile,
- wisecracker,
- wit,
- witling,
- worldling,
- zany
- welsh
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- a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales
- a Celtic language of Wales
- of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language; "the Welsh coast"; "Welsh syntax"
- cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt related words >
- back out,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- crawfish out,
- cry off,
- default,
- disallow,
- dishonor,
- dodge,
- dog it,
- duck,
- duck duty,
- get out of,
- goldbrick,
- goof off,
- levant,
- malinger,
- not pay,
- not pull fair,
- protest,
- refuse to pay,
- renege,
- repudiate,
- resile,
- shirk,
- skulk,
- slack,
- slide out of,
- slip out of,
- sneak out of,
- soldier,
- stop payment
- artifice,
- contrive,
- demarche,
- device,
- devise,
- dodge,
- drill,
- drive,
- engineer,
- exercise,
- finagle,
- finesse,
- gambit,
- guide,
- intrigue,
- jockey,
- machinate,
- machination,
- manage,
- manipulate,
- move,
- navigate,
- operate,
- operation,
- plan,
- plot,
- ploy,
- run,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- training,
- trick,
- wangle,
- wile
- malinger
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- avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill related words >
- abandon,
- cut,
- dodge,
- dog it,
- duck,
- duck duty,
- get out of,
- goldbrick,
- goof off,
- jump,
- leave,
- leave loose ends,
- leave undone,
- let alone,
- let be,
- let dangle,
- let go,
- miss,
- not pull fair,
- omit,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- pretermit,
- procrastinate,
- shirk,
- skip,
- skulk,
- slack,
- slide out of,
- slip out of,
- sneak out of,
- soldier,
- trifle,
- welsh
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