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Adjective

Likely, capable of, or designed to, deceive

Based on a mistaken or erroneous belief

Having a playfully mischievous character or streak

Noun

The act of beguiling others through deception

Verb

Exploiting someone for one's personal gain

Present participle for to deceive or fool someone

Present participle for to be unfaithful to one's regular spouse or partner

Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive

Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

Present participle for to conceal or disguise (one's thoughts, feelings, or character)

Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

Present participle for to demonstrate or expose the falsehood of something

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Adjective

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Likely, capable of, or designed to, deceive

phoney^UK

phony^US

off-colour^UK

off-color^US

skilful^UK

skillful^US

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

intentionally misleading

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

flakey^US

flaky^UK

like a snake in the grass

economical with the truth

bearing false witness

adroit

deft

devilish

dexterous^US

dextrous^UK

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“Nothing, in all Shakspere's philosophy, appears to us finer than the deceiving nature of Romeo's presages in the last act.”

Adjective

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Based on a mistaken or erroneous belief

phoney^UK

phony^US

colored^US

coloured^UK

economical with the truth

not backed up by evidence

flakey^US

flaky^UK

fantasized^US

fantasised^UK

product of someone's imagination

without substantiation

labouring under a misapprehension

wide of mark

barking up wrong tree

barking up the wrong tree

without justification

imperceptible to the touch

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Adjective

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Having a playfully mischievous character or streak

full of get-up-and-go

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

in high spirits

full of joie de vivre

full of vim and vigour

without a care in the world

full of the joys of spring

as happy as a sandboy

in seventh heaven

tickled to death

beside oneself with joy

like a dog with two tails

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Noun

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The act of beguiling others through deception

pretence^UK

pretense^US

manoeuvre^UK

maneuver^US

manoeuvres^UK

maneuvers^US

every trick in the book

dishonor^US

dishonour^UK

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

hypocritical behaviour

bit of sharp practice

misbehavior^US

offence^UK

offense^US

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Verb

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Exploiting someone for one's personal gain

patronising^UK

patronizing^US

victimising^UK

victimizing^US

using for one's own ends

taking liberties with

doing an injustice to

living off the backs of

making unfair claims on

withholding rights from

taking unfair advantage of

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

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Verb

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Present participle for to deceive or fool someone

victimising^UK

victimizing^US

taking to the cleaners

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

pulling a fast one on

chiseling^US

chiselling^UK

leading up the garden path

leading down the garden path

selling down the river

giving someone a bum steer

playing someone false

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

selling a bill of goods

catching out

getting the better of

putting on the wrong track

inducing

throwing off the scent

selling a bill of goods to

giving the wrong impression

pulling someone's leg

double dealing

putting on an act

putting on false front

playing trick on

putting up smoke screen

giving wrong information to

doing someone in the eye

balking^US

baulking^UK

going back on

leading up garden path

sending on a wild goose chase

wrong steering

deking

weaseling^US

weaselling^UK

putting someone up to something

ensorcelling

touting

doing someone dirty

biasing^US

biassing^UK

playing fast and loose with

gaslighting

giving the runaround

sending on a wild-goose chase

coming on

beclowning

slipping something over on

pulling something funny

hitting below the belt

twisting around your little finger

making a monkey of

making somebody look an idiot

making a monkey out of

going one better than

perjuring

stretching the truth

committing perjury

bearing false witness

putting the screws to

sucking the life out of

stealing someone blind

rooking out of

tearing from

bleeding someone of something

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

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“He helped disguise loans as sales in order to boost the company's revenue and thereby deceive the public as well as government regulators.”

Verb

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Present participle for to be unfaithful to one's regular spouse or partner

“She did not truly believe that her husband would ever deceive her with another woman.”

Verb

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Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive

coloring^US

colouring^UK

biasing^US

biassing^UK

quoting out of context

taking out of context

putting the wrong slant on

varnishing over

touching up

doctoring up

giving a false picture of

giving a false account of

dramatizing^US

dramatising^UK

giving a false idea of

covering up

passing off

blowing smoke

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Verb

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Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

departing from the truth

not telling the truth

trumping up

making up

telling a terminological inexactitude

creating fiction

telling a fib

speaking with forked tongue

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

telling a little white lie

pulling someone's leg

saying something untrue

perjuring oneself

putting on the wrong track

breaking promise

committing perjury

bearing false witness

throwing off the scent

putting up a front

putting on

sending on a wild goose chase

giving the wrong impression

creating out of thin air

dreaming up

conjuring up

devising

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Verb

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Present participle for to conceal or disguise (one's thoughts, feelings, or character)

going through the motions

making a pretense

making a show

putting on a false front

presenting a false face

presenting a false front

putting up a smoke screen

giving the appearance of

going through the motions of

putting up a front of

minimizing^US

passing oneself off as

minimising^UK

sweeping under the rug

sweeping under the carpet

harbouring^UK

squirreling^US

harboring^US

putting out of the way

putting on a false display

making inconspicuous

putting up a smokescreen

keeping under your hat

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Verb

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Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

Verb

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Present participle for to demonstrate or expose the falsehood of something

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