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- bunco
collapse - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property related words >
- anarchy,
- anomie,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- cozenage,
- criminalism,
- criminality,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- gerrymandering,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- illegality,
- illicitness,
- impermissibility,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- lawlessness,
- legal flaw,
- outlawry,
- racket,
- scam,
- swindle,
- technical flaw,
- unlawfulness,
- wrongfulness
- fraudulence
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- the quality of being fraudulent
- a fraudulent or duplicitous representation related words >
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- cozenage,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- deviousness,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- dodge,
- evasiveness,
- feloniousness,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulency,
- gerrymandering,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- improbity,
- indirection,
- racket,
- scam,
- shadiness,
- shiftiness,
- slipperiness,
- swindle,
- trickiness,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bordello,
- brothel,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- cathouse,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- clip joint,
- cozenage,
- den,
- den of thieves,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- dive,
- dodge,
- dump,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- fleshpots,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- gerrymandering,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- hole,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- joint,
- lair,
- racket,
- scam,
- sporting house,
- stews,
- swindle,
- whorehouse
- fakery
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- the act of faking (or the product of faking) related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copying,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- infidelity
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- the quality of being unfaithful related words >
- Punic faith,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- agnosticism,
- amor,
- amour,
- apostasy,
- atheism,
- bad faith,
- barratry,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- cheating,
- cuckoldry,
- denial,
- dereliction,
- disaffection,
- disbelief,
- discredit,
- disloyalty,
- entanglement,
- eternal triangle,
- faithlessness,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fickleness,
- flirtation,
- forbidden love,
- gentilism,
- hanky-panky,
- heresy,
- illicit love,
- inability to believe,
- inconstancy,
- incredulity,
- intrigue,
- liaison,
- love affair,
- mala fides,
- minimifidianism,
- misbelief,
- nonbelief,
- nullifidianism,
- perfidy,
- recreancy,
- rejection,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- secularism,
- traitorousness,
- treachery,
- triangle,
- trothlessness,
- unbelief,
- unbelievingness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness
- scam
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- a fraudulent business scheme related words >
- ballot-box stuffing,
- beat,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- bunco,
- burn,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- crib,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- euchre,
- finagle,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- fudge,
- gerrymandering,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- gull,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- have,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- mulct,
- pack the deal,
- pigeon,
- practice fraud upon,
- racket,
- rook,
- screw,
- sell gold bricks,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- swindle,
- take a dive,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- victimize
- acting,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- attitudinarianism,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- incarnation,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- peacockery,
- peacockishness,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posture,
- posturing,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- contrast,
- cunning,
- deception,
- delusion,
- difference,
- discrepancy,
- disguise,
- disparity,
- dissembling,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissimulation,
- distinction,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- duplicity,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- makeup,
- masquerade,
- mere caricature,
- meretriciousness,
- nonuniformity,
- ostentation,
- otherness,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- poor imitation,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- unlikeness,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mummery,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- projection,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- dishonesty
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- lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
- the quality of being dishonest related words >
- Machiavellianism,
- ambidexterity,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- cozenage,
- credibility gap,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- cunning,
- deceitfulness,
- deviousness,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonor,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicity,
- evasiveness,
- faithlessness,
- falseheartedness,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- feloniousness,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- gerrymandering,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- hanky-panky,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- improbity,
- indirection,
- low cunning,
- lying,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- mythomania,
- pseudology,
- racket,
- scam,
- shadiness,
- sharp practice,
- shiftiness,
- slipperiness,
- swindle,
- treachery,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- truthlessness,
- two-facedness,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- untruthfulness,
- unveraciousness,
- wile
- 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
- pretext
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- something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- alibi,
- allege,
- alternative,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- avow,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- choice,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- cover story,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- loophole,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- plea,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- profess,
- protest too much,
- purport,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- red herring,
- representation,
- right,
- ruse,
- saving clause,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stated cause,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- underlying reason,
- varnish,
- veil,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- window dressing
- dishonest
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- deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
- lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable related words >
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- artful,
- bent,
- casuistic,
- cheating,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- cronk,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defrauding,
- devious,
- dishonorable,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- fake,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- questionable,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- snide,
- suspicious,
- swindling,
- thieving,
- thievish,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfair,
- unfrank,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unserious,
- unstraightforward,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- Prospero,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airiness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- false air,
- false appearance,
- false front,
- false light,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- idealization,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- image,
- immateriality,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mannerism,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- prestidigitation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- unactuality,
- unnaturalness,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- simulation
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- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated" related words >
- accordance,
- acting,
- adoption,
- affectation,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- appearance,
- approach,
- appropriation,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- borrowed plumes,
- cheating,
- closeness,
- color,
- coloring,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- identity,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- infringement,
- likeness,
- likening,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- metaphor,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mirroring,
- mocking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- parody,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- taking,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- window dressing
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- the decoration of shop windows related words >
- acting,
- adjunct,
- adornment,
- affectation,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- arrangement,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- cheating,
- color,
- color patterns,
- coloring,
- deception,
- decor,
- decoration,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaboration,
- embellishment,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embroidery,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flourish,
- flower arrangement,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illumination,
- imposture,
- lap,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- obverse,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- put-on,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- trim,
- trimming,
- varnish,
- veneer
- speciousness
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- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- apparent soundness,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- circularity,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- disingenuousness,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- oversubtlety,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- public image,
- rationalization,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- window dressing
- imposture
collapse
- pretending to be another person related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copy,
- copying,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeiting,
- cozenage,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- emulation,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- front,
- gambit,
- gerrymandering,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- hit-off,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposition,
- impression,
- make-believe,
- maneuver,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- phony,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- ploy,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- put-on,
- quackery,
- quackishness,
- quackism,
- racket,
- repetition,
- representation,
- ruse,
- scam,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- swindle,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing
- trickery
collapse
- 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
- ballot-box stuffing,
- balls,
- baloney,
- beat,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- blague,
- bosh,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunco,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burn,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- claptrap,
- cock-and-bull story,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- crap,
- crib,
- deception,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- euchre,
- exaggeration,
- eyewash,
- fairy tale,
- fake,
- fakement,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- finagle,
- fish story,
- fishy transaction,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- gerrymandering,
- ghost story,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- gull,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- half-truth,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hooey,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- jiggery-pokery,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mendacity,
- moonshine,
- mulct,
- pack the deal,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pious fiction,
- practice fraud upon,
- prevarication,
- put-on,
- racket,
- rip-off,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell,
- sell gold bricks,
- sham,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- slight stretching,
- spoof,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- story,
- swindle,
- take a dive,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- victimize,
- white lie,
- yarn
- acting
collapse
- the performance of a part or role in a drama related words >
- act,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- ad interim,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- at work,
- attitudinizing,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- deputative,
- deputy,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- employment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- exercise,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- going,
- going on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incarnation,
- interim,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- movements,
- mummery,
- occupation,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- projection,
- representation,
- representative,
- running,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- serving,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- supply,
- swing,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- Partlet,
- Seeing Eye dog,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bandog,
- beat,
- beguile of,
- biddy,
- bilk,
- bitch,
- bossy,
- bowwow,
- brood mare,
- bunco,
- burn,
- canine,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- con man,
- cow,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- crib,
- defraud,
- defrauder,
- diddle,
- diddler,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- doe,
- dog,
- double-dealer,
- euchre,
- ewe,
- ewe lamb,
- fake,
- fancy dog,
- filly,
- finagle,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- flimflammer,
- fob,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- fudge,
- gerrymandering,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- guide dog,
- guinea hen,
- gull,
- gyp joint,
- have,
- heifer,
- hen,
- hind,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- humbug,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- jenny,
- kennel,
- lap dog,
- lioness,
- mare,
- mountebank,
- mulct,
- nanny,
- nanny goat,
- overreach,
- pack of dogs,
- pack the deal,
- peahen,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pooch,
- practice fraud upon,
- pup,
- puppy,
- racket,
- roe,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell,
- sell gold bricks,
- sharper,
- shave,
- she-bear,
- she-goat,
- she-lion,
- sheep dog,
- shortchange,
- show dog,
- sled dog,
- slut,
- sow,
- spoof,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- swindle,
- take a dive,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- tigress,
- toy dog,
- trickster,
- victimize,
- vixen,
- watchdog,
- whelp,
- working dog
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- pretense
collapse
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- refuge,
- representation,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stated cause,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- title,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- deception
collapse
- the act of deceiving related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- airy nothing,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- autism,
- befooling,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- burial,
- burying,
- casuistry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chimera,
- clouding,
- color,
- coloring,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- cunning,
- darkening,
- daydream,
- deceit,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dirt,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- duping,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false belief,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- gulling,
- gyp,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hoax,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- impose,
- imposture,
- indirection,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- knavery,
- manipulation,
- masking,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mystification,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overreaching,
- pipe dream,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- putting away,
- representation,
- ride,
- rip-off,
- ruse,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- seeming,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- snow job,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- spuriousness,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing,
- wrong impression
- graft
collapse
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" related words >
- abstraction,
- affix,
- anchor,
- annex,
- annexation,
- appropriation,
- attach,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- belay,
- blackmail,
- boodle,
- boodling,
- boosting,
- booty,
- bribery,
- bribery and corruption,
- bribing,
- bud,
- bunco,
- campaign contribution,
- campaign fund,
- cardsharping,
- cement,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- cinch,
- clamp,
- clinch,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- corruption,
- cozenage,
- cramp,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- embedment,
- embezzlement,
- engraft,
- entrance,
- extortion,
- fasten,
- filching,
- fishy transaction,
- fix,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- gerrymandering,
- grafting,
- grapple,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- haul,
- hot goods,
- illicit business,
- imp,
- impaction,
- impactment,
- implant,
- implantation,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- inarch,
- infixion,
- infusion,
- injection,
- inoculation,
- insert,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- interjection,
- interpolation,
- introduction,
- intromission,
- jobbery,
- join,
- kickback,
- knit,
- liberation,
- lifting,
- loot,
- make fast,
- moor,
- nepotism,
- payola,
- penetration,
- perfusion,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pickings,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinching,
- plunder,
- poaching,
- political intrigue,
- pork barrel,
- pork-barrel legislation,
- pork-barreling,
- prize,
- public till,
- public tit,
- public trough,
- put to,
- racket,
- scam,
- scion,
- screw up,
- scrounging,
- secure,
- set,
- set to,
- shoot,
- shoplifting,
- slush fund,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- snitching,
- splice,
- spoil,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- spoils system,
- squeeze,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- stealings,
- stolen goods,
- subornation,
- swag,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- take,
- tessellation,
- theft,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- tighten,
- till,
- transplant,
- transplantation,
- trice up,
- trim
- cheat
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- a deception for profit to yourself
- defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" related words >
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bamboozle,
- bamboozlement,
- beat,
- befool,
- beguile,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- blackleg,
- boodle,
- bunco,
- burn,
- cardsharping,
- charlatan,
- cheater,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chisel,
- chiseler,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- clinquant,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- con man,
- confidence man,
- counterfeit,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- cozener,
- crib,
- crook,
- deceit,
- deceive,
- deceiver,
- deception,
- defraud,
- defrauder,
- delude,
- diddle,
- diddler,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- doodle,
- double-cross,
- double-dealer,
- double-dealing,
- duff,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- euchre,
- evade,
- fake,
- fakement,
- faker,
- falsify,
- fiddle,
- finagle,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- flimflam man,
- flimflammer,
- fob,
- fool,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- fudge,
- gerrymandering,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- gull,
- gyp,
- gyp artist,
- gyp joint,
- gypper,
- hanky-panky,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoodwink,
- humbug,
- illicit business,
- imitation,
- imposition,
- impostor,
- imposture,
- juggler,
- junk,
- lie,
- mace,
- mislead,
- mock,
- mountebank,
- mulct,
- operator,
- overreach,
- pack the deal,
- paste,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pinchbeck,
- practice fraud upon,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- racket,
- ream,
- rip off,
- rip-off,
- rogue,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell,
- sell gold bricks,
- sham,
- shark,
- sharp practice,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- shave,
- shift,
- shift about,
- shoddy,
- short,
- shortchange,
- simulacrum,
- skin,
- slick,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- sucker,
- swindle,
- swindler,
- take,
- take a dive,
- take in,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- tinsel,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickster,
- two-timer,
- victimize,
- whited sepulcher
- falsity
collapse
- the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" related words >
- Punic faith,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad faith,
- barratry,
- blague,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- canard,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- cock-and-bull story,
- color,
- coloring,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- deviancy,
- disaffection,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- disingenuousness,
- disloyalty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fairy tale,
- faithlessness,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fib,
- fickleness,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- front,
- ghost story,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- half-truth,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- illusion,
- imposture,
- inconstancy,
- infidelity,
- insincerity,
- inveracity,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mala fides,
- masquerade,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misrepresentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- peccancy,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- perversion,
- pious fiction,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- recreancy,
- representation,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slight stretching,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- trothlessness,
- trumped-up story,
- truthlessness,
- uncandidness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- varnish,
- white lie,
- window dressing,
- wrong,
- wrongness,
- yarn
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