Deception
Deception
#545. Deception. -- N. deception; falseness &c. 544; untruth &c. 546;
imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence,
fraudulency[obs]; covin[obs]; knavery &c. (cunning) 702;
misrepresentation &c. (falsehood) 544; bluff; straw-bail, straw bid [U.S.];
spoof*.
- delusion, gullery[obs]; juggling, jugglery[obs]; slight of hand,
legerdemain; prestigiation|, prestidigitation; magic &c. 992; conjuring,
conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie[obs], jockeyship[obs]; trickery,
coggery|, chicanery; supercherie[obs], cozenage[obs], circumvention,
ingannation|, collusion; treachery &c. 940; practical joke.
- trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch,
chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded
dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the
bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem
&c. (artifice) 702; confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft &c. 791; ballot-box
stuffing barney*[obs][U.S.], brace* game, bunko game, drop* game, gum*
game, panel game[U.S.]; shell game, thimblerig; skin* game [U.S.].
- snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe[obs], springle|; noose,
hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb,
net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea[obs], Venus's
flytrap[obs]; ambush &c. 530; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom;
spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine;
flytrap[obs]; green goods [U.S.]; panel house.
- Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing &c. (deceiver) 548; disguise,
disguisement[obs]; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes;
pattes de velours[Fr].
- mockery &c. (imitation) 19; copy &c. 21; counterfeit, sham, make-
believe, forgery, fraud; lie &c. 546; "a delusion a mockery and a snare"
[Denman], hollow mockery.
- whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry,
costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola[obs], ormolu,
German silver, albata[obs], paktong[obs], white metal, Britannia metal,
paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw.
- illusion &c. (error) 495; ignis fatuus &c. 423[Lat]; mirage &c. 443.
- V. deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab,
chouse, play one false, bilk, cully[obs], jilt, bite, pluck, swindle,
victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw
dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool[obs], bamboozle,
flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.
- impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm
upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush*,
gum* [U.S.], spoof*, stuff (a ballot box) [U.S.].
- circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march
upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch
- decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap[obs],
ensnare; nick, springe[obs]; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait
the hook, forelay[obs], spread the toils, lime; trapan[obs], trepan;
kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle[obs], nousel[obs]; blind a trail; enmesh,
immesh[obs]; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle,
illaqueate[obs], hocus, escamoter[obs], practice on one's credulity; hum,
humbug; gammon, stuff up*, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical
joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up,
throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's
errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of[obs], make an ass
of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over &c. (influence) 615; gild the
pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble &c
544.
- cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits,
play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses &c. (steal) 791;
conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon [U.S.].
- play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off.
- lie &c. 544; misinform &c. 538; mislead &c. (error) 495; betray &c. 940;
be deceived &c. 547.
- Adj. deceived &c. v.; deceiving &c; cunning &c. 702; prestigious|,
prestigiatory|; deceptive, deceptious[obs]; deceitful, covinous[obs];
delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum
vulgus[Lat].
- untrue &c. 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide*, pseudo,
spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus,
scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious,
illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at
the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated;
catchpenny; Brummagem.
- artificial, synthetic, ersatz[&German]; simulated &c. 544.
- Adv. under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the
left.
- Phr. "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"
[Macbeth]; fronti nulla fides[Lat]; "ah that deceit should steal such
gentle shapes" [Richard III]; "a quicksand of deceit" [Henry VI]; decipimur
specie recti [Lat][Horace]; falsi crimen[Lat]; fraus est celare
fraudem[Lat]; lupus in fabula[Lat]; "so smooth, he daubed his vice with
show of virtue" [Richard III].