A sudden loud noise — often used interjectionally to indicate a sudden impact or occurrence

An entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts one from worries and vexations; SYN. distraction.

An untrustworthy tricky individual; cheat

Humbug; pretentious nonsense.

1. People who have severe visual impairments
2. Something that keeps things out or hinders sight; SYN. screen.
3. A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)

A dialect or regional pronunciation; especially; an Irish accent
1. A stout coarse shoe worn formerly in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands
2. A heavy shoe often with a hobnailed sole; brogan
3. A stout oxford shoe with perforations and usually a wing tip

ETYM Cf. Dutch bobbel, Dan. boble, Swed. bubbla. Related to Blob.
A hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide).
1. A small globule typically hollow and light: as a small body of gas within a liquid; a thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; a globule in a transparent solid; something (as a plastic or inflatable structure) that is hemispherical or semicylindrical.
2. Something that lacks firmness, solidity, or reality; A delusive scheme.
3. A sound like that of bubbling.
4. magnetic bubble.
5. A state of booming economic activity (as in a stock market) that often ends in a sudden collapse.
6. The condition of being at risk of exclusion or replacement (as from a tournament) — usually used in the phrase on the bubble.

A deception for profit to oneself; SYN. cheating.

ETYM Latin circumventio.
The act of evading by going around.

On the rim of gear wheel; SYN. sprocket.
Single-masted, square-sailed ship with raised stern.

Collusion; fraud.

1. The art or practice of cozening; fraud
2. An act or an instance of cozening

ETYM AS. craeft strength, skill, art, cunning; akin to OS., German, Swed., and Dan. kraft strength, Dutch kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together, stretching, from the root of Eng. cramp.
(Homonym: kraft).
1. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
2. A particular kind of skilled work; SYN. trade.
3. Skill in an occupation or trade; SYN. craftsmanship, workmanship.
4. Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception; SYN. craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness.

ETYM Old Fren. deceit, desçait, decept (cf. deceite, deçoite), from Latin deceptus deception, from decipere. Related to Deceive.
1. An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
2. Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit; SYN. Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity.

ETYM French déception, Latin deceptio, from decipere, deceptum. Related to Deceive.
The act of deceiving; SYN. deceit, dissembling, dissimulation.
In warfare, the use of dummies, decoys, and electronics to trick the enemy into believing in and preparing to defend against armies that do not exist.
The Allied ground offensive in the 1991 Gulf War was launched 160 km/100 mi W of where the Iraqi army was led to believe it would take place. The deception techniques used completely wrong-footed the Iraqi forces.

Act of depriving of property through fraud, deceit

Act of defrauding; swindle; rip off

ETYM Latin delusio, from deludere. Related to Delude.
In psychiatry, a false belief that is unshakeably held. Delusions are a prominent feature of schizophrenia and paranoia, but may also occur in other psychiatric states.
1. A mistaken opinion or idea.
2. An erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary; SYN. psychotic belief.

(Homonym: doe, dough).
The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization; SYN. doh, ut.

1. A quick evasive movement.
2. A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery; SYN. dodging, scheme.

An act of betrayal; SYN. double-crossing.
A cross between first-generation hybrids of four separate inbred lines (as in the production of hybrid seed corn).

Action contradictory to a professed attitude; duplicity. double dealing

1. The condition of being duped
2. The act or practice of duping

ETYM French duplicité, Latin duplicitas, from duplex double. Related to Duplex.
Acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another; SYN. double-dealing.

ETYM Cf. French forgerie.
Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud.
The making of a false document, painting, or object with deliberate intention to deceive or defraud. The most common forgeries involve financial instruments such as checks or credit-card transactions or money (counterfeiting). There are also literary forgeries, forged coins, and forged antiques.
Financial gain is not the only motive for forgery. Han van Meegeren probably began painting in the style of Vermeer to make fools of the critics, but found such a ready market for his creations that he became a rich man before he was forced to confess. The archeological Piltdown Man hoax in England in 1912 also appears to have been a practical joke.

ETYM French fraude, Latin fraus, fraudis; prob. akin to Skr. dhûrv to injure, dhvor to cause to fall, and Eng. dull.
1. Deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage; SYN. fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on.
2. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
In law, an act of deception resulting in injury to another. To establish fraud it has to be demonstrated that (1) a false representation (for example, a factually untrue statement) has been made, with the intention that it should be acted upon; (2) the person making the representation knows it is false or does not attempt to find out whether it is true or not; and (3) the person to whom the representation is made acts upon it to his or her detriment.
A contract based on fraud can be declared void, and the injured party can sue for damages.

Hind portion of a side of bacon.

ETYM Old Eng. guile, gile, Old Fren. guile; of German origin, and the same word as Eng. wile. Related to Wile.
Deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; treachery.

ETYM Prob. contr. from hocus, in hocus-pocus.
A deception; a deceptive trick or story; an elaborate practical joke.

ETYM Prob. from hum to impose on, deceive + bug a frightful object.
1. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

1. The act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression; SYN. juggling.
2. Throwing and catching several objects simultaneously; SYN. juggling.

Hideout

1. Arrangement of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel; SYN. rigging.
2. Equipment, including necessary machinery, for a particular enterprise.

ETYM as. right. Related to Right.
1. The hand that is on the right side of the body; SYN. right hand.
2. A turn to the right.
3. Anything in accord with principles of justice; SYN. rightfulness.
4. Location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east.
5. An abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature.
6. The conservative faction of a political party; SYN. right wing.
7. (Frequently plural) The interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing.

ETYM Latin seductio: cf. French séduction. See Seduce.
1. An act of winning the love of someone; SYN. conquest.
2. Enticing someone astray from right behavior.

ETYM Originally the same word as shame, hence, a disgrace, a trick. Related to Shame.
1. A counterfeit article.
2. A trick meant to delude or deceive; a hoax.

A voluble line of often extravagant talk; pitch
Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson); SYN. patter, line of gab.

Forging packets so they appear to originate from a trusted host.
The practice of making a transmission appear to come from an authorized user. For example, in IP spoofing, a transmission is given the IP address of an authorized user in order to obtain access to a computer or network. See also IP address.

The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme:; SYN. cheat.

An act of taking in especially by deceiving

ETYM Dutch trek a pull, or drawing, a trick, trekken to draw; akin to lg. trekken, Mid. High Germ. trecken, trechen, Dan. traekke, and OFries. trekka. Related to Track, Trachery, Trig, Trigger.
1. A cunning or deceitful action or device; SYN. fast one.
2. A period of work or duty.
3. An attempt to get one to do something foolish or imprudent.

ETYM Old Eng. wile, AS. wîl; cf. Icel. val, vael. Related to Guile.
(Homonym: while).
A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

One who, or that which, beguiles.

Someone who bites.

A person who tries to bluff other people.

1. A drinking fountain from which a stream of water bubbles upward
2. One that bubbles

A swindle in which one cheats at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property; SYN. bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam.

Bunco.

A deception for profit to oneself; SYN. cheating.

A Turkish messenger or sergeant.

1. Something (as an advertising promotion) intended to entice or allure
2. A usually sexual advance
3. A provocative comment or action intended to interest a person in romance or sex is a come-on.
4. A discount or special offer designed to get people to buy something is a come-on.

Someone who leads one to believe something that is not true; SYN. cheat, cheater, trickster.

Cheat, trickster, one guilty of fraud

One who disguises his true motives, one who acts in a false or misleading manner, hypocrite

A person who says one thing and does another; SYN. double-dealer, betrayer, traitor.

ETYM German schwindler, from schwindlen to be dizzy, to act thoughtlessly, to cheat, from schwindel dizziness, from schwinden to vanish, to disappear, to dwindle. Related to Swim to be dizzy.
A person who swindles by means of deception or fraud; SYN. chiseller, chiseler, gouger, sharper, sharpie, sharpy.

(Amateur wrestling) Being brought to the mat from a standing position; SYN. take-down

One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

(British) bad person, criminal person, person considered as having a bad character or criminal inclinations; googly (Cricket)

Misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods.

1. Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned.
2. Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive; SYN. corrupt.

Intended to deceive; - S.T.Coleridge; SYN. fallacious, fraudulent.

1. Deceitful, deceptive
2. Capable of being deceived

Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness.

Having evil or malicious intent.
Dolous; Law, of evil intent.

Misleadingly, in a beguiling manner

In a false or misleading manner, deceptively, hypocritically