Synonyms:
- artifice,
- cabal,
- cheat,
- clinquant,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterfeit,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- deep-laid plot,
- dummy,
- engineering,
- fake,
- fakement,
- false witness,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- forgery,
- frame,
- fraud,
- game,
- hoax,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- intrigue,
- junk,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- mock,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- paste,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- planning,
- plot,
- plotting,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- rigged jury,
- rigging,
- rip-off,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- setup,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- stacked deck,
- stratagem,
- swindle,
- tinsel,
- trick,
- underplot,
- web of intrigue,
- whited sepulcher,
- wire-pulling