deceit

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noun

1. the quality of being fraudulent (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
fraudulence
• Derivationally related forms:
fraudulent (for: fraudulence)
• Hypernyms:
dishonesty
2. a misleading falsehood
• Syn:
misrepresentation, deception
• Derivationally related forms:
deceive (for: deception), misrepresent (for: misrepresentation)
• Hypernyms:
falsehood, falsity, untruth
• Hyponyms:
bill of goods, humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade,
window dressing, exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, snow job, pretense,
pretence, feigning, dissembling, subterfuge, blind, trickery,
hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery,
fraudulence, duplicity, evasion, equivocation
3. the act of deceiving
• Syn:
deception, dissembling, dissimulation
• Derivationally related forms:
dissimulate (for: dissimulation), deceive (for: deception)
• Hypernyms:
falsification, misrepresentation
• Hyponyms:
fakery, indirection, trickery, chicanery, chicane,
guile, wile, shenanigan, duplicity, double-dealing, cheat,
cheating, delusion, illusion, head game, pretense, pretence,
pretending, simulation, feigning, imposture, impersonation, obscurantism,
bluff, four flush, take-in

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  deception, dissembling, dissimulation, misrepresentation, fraudulence