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fencing collapse: the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)

bamboozle collapse: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"

foul play collapse: unfair or treacherous behavior (especially involving violence)

connivance collapse: (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing; agreement on a secret plot

dishonesty collapse: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing; the quality of being dishonest

decoy collapse: a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot); lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy

hairsplitting collapse: making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"

gull collapse: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs; fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"

indirection collapse: deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"; indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"

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

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

equivocation collapse: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

snare collapse: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose; strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit; a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities

evasion collapse: the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver; nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"; the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"; a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

cheat collapse: 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?"

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

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