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Nouns (7)

n. a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file

trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan

n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

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Fuzzynyms (25)

misrepresentation, deceit, deception

n. a misleading falsehood

intrigue

n. a clandestine love affair

ploy, gambit, stratagem

n. a maneuver in a game or conversation

tactic, tactics, maneuver, manoeuvre

n. a plan for attaining a particular goal

feint

n. any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)

trick, fast one

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

dishonesty

n. the quality of being dishonest

immorality

n. the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"

mendacity

n. the tendency to be untruthful

subterfuge, blind

n. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"

fraudulence, duplicity

n. a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

sophism, sophistry, sophistication

n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

trick

n. an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"

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