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deceiver collapse: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

ranter collapse: someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner

colonization collapse: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"

swindle collapse: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

quack collapse: the harsh sound of a duck; an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice; act as a medical quack or a charlatan; utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"

mountebank collapse: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

bilk collapse: evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"; cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

appropriation collapse: a deliberate act of acquisition; money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

liberation collapse: the act of liberating someone or something; the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked for women's liberation"

ringer collapse: (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg; a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses; a person who is almost identical to another

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

proportional representation collapse: representation of all parties in proportion to their popular vote

forgery collapse: criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

pinchbeck collapse: an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold; serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"

pretext collapse: something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

performer collapse: an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

fiddle collapse: play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"; play the violin or fiddle; commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"; avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"

impersonator collapse: someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another

simulation collapse: 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"

ramp collapse: an inclined surface connecting two levels; a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft; North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers; stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing; creep up -- used especially of plants; "The roses ramped over the wall"; be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction"; furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium"; behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

victimize collapse: punish unjustly; deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"; make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"

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