Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
abusion | (Spenser) misuse, deception. |
assot | (Obs.) to befool, besot. |
bam | to hoax or cheat. |
bamboozle | to deceive by underhanded methods; to frustrate. |
bamboozlement | the act of bamboozling. |
bamboozler | one who bamboozles, deceives by underhanded methods. |
beflum | (Scott) to befool, cajole. |
befool | to fool; to delude or lead into error. |
beguile | to deceive. |
beguilement | the state of being beguiled. |
beguiler | one who beguiles. |
beguilingly | (Adv.) BEGUILING. |
begunk | (Scots) to trick, to play a trick on. |
belie | to misrepresent. |
belier | one who belies. |
bilk | to avoid paying someone what is due. |
bilker | one who bilks, eludes payment of what is due. |
bishop | a senior clergyman in charge of a diocese; (verb) to fill, or otherwise tamper with, the teeth of a horse, to make it seem younger. |
bluff | open, frank (noun) a pretence, a trick; (verb) to deceive |
bluffable | able to be bluffed. |
bluffer | one that bluffs. |
bluffness | the state of being bluff, open, frank. |
bogus | not genuine, counterfeit. |
bogusly | (Adv.) BOGUS, not genuine, counterfeit. |
bogusness | the state of being bogus. |
braide | (Shakesp.) dissembling, deceitful. |
brummagem | making an imposing display but inferior and of little worth; (noun) something showy but cheap. |
bumbaze | (Scots) to perplex, bamboozle. |
bunce | (Sl.) profit or gain; (verb) to ring up wrongfully an extra item on every customer's bill, to offset theft. |
bunco | (US sl.) a confidence trick; (verb) to practice such a trick. |
bunko | (US sl.) a confidence trick; (verb) to practice a confidence trick. |
canard | (Fr.) a false or unfounded report or story. |
cardsharp | one who engages in sharp practice at cards. |
cardsharper | one who engages in sharp practice at cards. |
catchpenny | a worthless thing made only for profit. |
cauker | a big lie. |
caulker | a big lie. |
cheat | one who deceives or defrauds; (verb) to defraud. |
cheater | one that cheats. |
cheatery | (Coll.) cheating. |
cheatingly | (Adv.) CHEATING. |
chiaus | a cheat, a swindler; (verb) to cheat. |
chicane | a series of sharp bends on a motor-racing track; (verb, arch.) to quibble, to use tricks and artifices. |
chicaner | a person who chicanes, a quibbler. |
chicanery | deception by trickery or sophistry. |
chiseler | one who chisels; a swindler. |
chiseller | one who chisels; a swindler. |
chiz | (Sl.) a cheat, a swizz; (verb) to swindle. |
chizz | (Sl.) a cheat, a swizz; (verb) to swindle. |
chouse | a cheat, a swindler; (verb) to cheat; to swindle. |
chouser | a swindler. |
choush | a cheat, a swindler. |
chowse | to cheat; to swindle. |
cod | a kind of food fish; (verb) to hoax or make fun of. |
codology | the art or practice of bluffing or deception. |
cog | a projection, eg on a toothed wheel; (verb) to furnish with cogs; to cheat at dice. |
cogger | a flatterer or deceiver. |
colt | a young male horse; (verb, arch.) to frisk like a colt, to defraud. |
coosen | (Obs.) to cheat. |
coosin | (Obs.) to cheat. |
counterbluff | actions or words intended as a bluff, made in opposition to someone else's bluff. |
counterfect | (Spenser) counterfeit, made in imitation. |
counterfeisance | an act of counterfeiting; forgery. |
counterfeit | imitation (verb) to imitate or feign esp with intent to deceive |
counterfeitly | (Adv.) COUNTERFEIT, imitation. |
counterfesaunce | (Arch.) an act of counterfeiting; forgery. |
covinous | (Arch.) fraudulent. |
cozenage | the art or practice of cozening. |
cozener | one who cozens. |
credulous | gullible. |
credulously | (Adv.) CREDULOUS, gullible. |
cretism | a lie. |
cully | a pal, a mate; (verb, arch.) to cheat, deceive. |
daubery | a crudely artful device, a pretence. |
daubry | a crudely artful device, a pretence. |
dawbry | (Shakesp.) a crudely artful device, a pretence. |
deceit | the act of deceiving. |
deceitful | given to deceiving. |
deceitfully | (Adv.) DECEITFUL, given to deceit. |
deceitfulness | the state of being deceitful. |
deceivability | the quality of being deceivable. |
deceivable | fitted to deceive; deceitful. |
deceivableness | the state of being deceivable. |
deceivably | (Adv.) DECEIVABLE, fitted to deceive; deceitful. |
deceive | to mislead by falsehood. |
deceiver | one that deceives. |
deceivingly | (Adv.) DECEIVING. |
deceptibility | the quality of being deceptible. |
deceptible | capable of being deceived; deceivable. |
deception | the act of deceiving. |
deceptional | of the nature of deception. |
deceptious | (Shakesp.) deceitful. |
deceptive | tending to deceive. |
deceptively | (Adv.) DECEPTIVE, given to deceiving. |
deceptiveness | the state of being deceptive. |
deceptory | tending to deceive. |
decoy | to lure into a trap. |
decoyer | one who decoys. |
defraud | to swindle. |
defrauder | one who defrauds. |
defraudment | the act of defrauding. |
deludable | capable of being deluded. |
delude | to mislead the mind or judgment of. |
deluder | one who deludes. |
deludingly | (Adv.) DELUDING. |
delusion | the act of deluding. |
delusional | relating to delusion. |
delusionary | relating to delusion. |
delusive | tending to delude. |
delusively | (Adv.) DELUSIVE, tending to delude. |
delusiveness | the state of being delusive. |
delusory | tending to delude. |
diddler | a cheat. |
dissemblance | the act of dissembling. |
dissimulate | to pretend, feign. |
dodgery | evasion, trickery. |
duckshover | (Aust.) one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats. |
dumminess | being like a dummy, sham. |
dummy | sham, feigned (noun) a sham or counterfeit article taking the place of a real one; (verb) to fake |
dupability | the ability to be duped. |
dupable | capable of being duped. |
dupe | someone who is cheated; (verb) to deceive. |
duper | one who dupes another. |
dupery | the act or practice of duping. |
duplicitous | given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech. |
duplicitously | (Adv.) DUPLICITOUS, given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech. |
duplicity | doubleness, esp in conduct or intention. |
elusion | the action of eluding. |
elusory | tending to elude or deceive. |
equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse. |
equivocally | (Adv.) EQUIVOCAL, subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse. |
equivocate | to use equivocal or doubtful words in order to mislead or to avoid answering a question |
equivocatingly | (Adv.) EQUIVOCATING. |
equivocation | the use of equivocal or doubtful words. |
factitious | contrived, artificial. |
factitiousness | the state of being factitious. |
faine | (Spenser) to feign. |
fake | not genuine > FAKER, FAKEST; (verb) to contrive and present as genuine |
fakement | a sham, a dodge. |
faker | one who fakes eg works of art. |
fakery | the practice of making fakes. |
fakey | fake (noun) a skateboarding position in which the skateboarder faces the opposite direction to that which they would normally |
false | wrong, deceiving (verb, obs.) to deceive |
falsehood | a lie. |
falsely | (Adv.) FALSE, wrong, deceiving. |
falseness | the state of being false. |
falser | (Obs.) a falsifier, a counterfeiter. |
falsidical | conveying a meaning that is false. |
falsifiable | that can be falsified. |
falsification | the act of falsifying. |
falsifier | one who falsifies. |
falsify | to represent falsely. |
falsish | somewhat false. |
falsity | something false. |
fastie | (Aust. sl.) a deceitful trick. |
faux | (Fr.) fake, as in faux naif, falsely simple or naive, feigning artlessness. |
fayne | (Spenser) to feign. |
feign | to pretend, give a false impression. |
feignedly | (Adv.) FEIGNED, in a manner to deceive. |
feignedness | the state of being feigned. |
feigner | one who feigns or pretends. |
feigning | the act of feigning. |
feigningly | (Adv.) FEIGNING. |
fib | a small lie; (verb) to tell a small lie. |
fibber | one that fibs. |
fibbery | the habit of fibbing. |
fibster | one who tells fibs. |
fictive | feigned; counterfeit. |
fictively | (Adv.) FICTIVE, feigned, counterfeit. |
finagler | one who finagles, obtains by guile or swindling. |
flam | to deceive. |
flimflam | a confidence trick; (verb) to engage in confidence trickery. |
flimflammer | one who engages in flimflam. |
flimflammery | the act of engaging in flimflam. |
fob | to put off. |
foister | one who foists. |
fop | an affected dandy; (verb) to deceive. |
fubbery | (Obs.) a deception. |
fudge | to falsify. |
gammon | the cured meat from the hindquarters and leg of a pig; (verb) to feign an action; to perpetrate a hoax on. |
gammoner | one who gammons, i.e. feigns or cheats. |
geck | a dupe, an object of scorn; (verb) to mock, dupe. |
gimcrack | cheap and showy; (noun) something cheap and showy, of little use. |
gimcrackery | the state of being gimcrack. |
gip | to swindle. |
gipper | one who gips, a swindler. |
grift | (US) to swindle. |
grifter | (US) a swindler. |
guile | cunning; (verb, obs.) to beguile. |
guilefulness | the state of being guileful. |
guiler | (Spenser) a deceiver. |
gull | a dupe or fool; (verb) to dupe, deceive. |
gullable | (Arch.) easily deceived. |
gullably | (Adv.) GULLABLE, easily deceived. |
guller | one who gulls, a deceiver. |
gullery | (Arch.) deception. |
gullibility | the state of being gullible. |
gullible | easily deceived. |
gullibly | (Adv.) GULLIBLE, easily deceived. |
guyle | (Spenser) to beguile. |
guyler | (Spenser) a deceiver. |
gyp | pain, torture; (verb) to swindle. |
hoax | a deceptive trick played as a practical joke; (verb) to deceive. |
hoaxer | one that hoaxes. |
hocus | to deceive or cheat. |
hoodwink | to deceive. |
hoodwinker | one who hoodwinks. |
hornswoggle | to bamboozle, deceive. |
humbug | pretence, fraud; (verb) to deceive, cheat. |
humbuggable | capable of being humbugged. |
humbugger | one who humbugs, deceives. |
humbuggery | deception. |
hypocrisy | a feigning to be better than one is, or to be what one is not. |
hypocrite | one who pretends to be better or other than they are. |
hypocritic | characterized by hypocrisy. |
hypocritical | characterized by hypocrisy. |
illude | to trick. |
illusion | a false perception. |
illusional | of or like an illusion. |
illusioned | having an illusion. |
illusorily | (Adv.) ILLUSORY, based on illusion. |
illusory | based on illusion. |
imposter | someone who assumes a false character or impersonates another. |
impostor | someone who assumes a false character or impersonates another. |
impostorous | relating to imposture. |
impostrous | doing imposture. |
imposture | a fraud, the act of an impostor. |
imposturous | relating to imposture. |
jackleg | an amateur; one characterized by unscrupulousness, dishonesty or lack or standards. |
jadery | the tricks of a jade. |
jimcrack | cheap and showy; (noun) something cheap and showy, of little use. |
jookery | (Scots) trickery, roguery. |
joukery | (Scots) trickery, roguery. |
kid | a young goat; a child; (verb) to hoax or deceive. |
kiddy | to hoax; to kid. |
kidologist | a student of kidology. |
kidology | the study of kidding. |
lee | shelter; (verb, Scots) to tell a lie. |
leear | (Scots) a liar. |
leger | one who sells short weight in charcoal. |
liar | one that speaks falsely. |
lie | a false statement; (verb) to tell a lie to be in a horizontal position |
lier | one who lies. |
lyingly | (Adv.) LYING, untruthful. |
malengine | (Spenser) evil machination, deceit. |
malinger | (Fr.) to feign sickness in order to avoid duty or work. |
malingerer | one who malingers. |
malingery | the spirit or practices of a malingerer. |
mamaguy | (Caribbean) to deceive or tease esp by flattery. |
maskirovka | (Russian) use of deception or camouflage as military stratagem. |
masquerade | an assembly of people wearing masks, costumes, esp at a ball; (verb) to disguise oneself. |
mendaciousness | the quality of being mendacious, given to lying. |
mendacity | given to lying, esp habitually. |
misfeign | (Spenser) to feign with evil intent. |
mislead | to deceive. |
misleading | deceptive. |
misleadingly | (Adv.) MISLEADING. |
misrepresent | to give a false or misleading representation of. |
misseem | (Spenser) to be unbecoming to. |
mythomane | someone who is prone to lie or believe in lies. |
nontruth | an untruth. |
outbluff | to surpass in bluffing. |
outcheat | to exceed in cheating. |
outlie | to lie outside, be outlying to surpass in lying |
outtrick | to surpass in tricking. |
palter | to talk or act in an insincere or deceitful manner. |
palterer | one who palters, talks in a deceitful manner. |
perfidy | treachery; breaking of promise. |
perjure | to lie under oath to tell the truth. |
personate | to assume the identity of, with intent to deceive. |
personation | the act of personating. |
phenakism | deceit. |
phoney | counterfeit, fake; (verb) to fake, counterfeit. |
phoneyness | the state of being phoney. |
phonily | (Adv.) PHONY, fake. |
phoniness | the state of being phony. |
phony | counterfeit, fake (noun) a fake; (verb) to fake, counterfeit |
plagiary | (Arch.) one who plagiarises. |
playact | to act as in a play, pretend. |
poop | the after part of a ship; (verb) to fool, cozen. |
porky | plump like a pig (noun) a lie |
possum | an aphetic form of opossum; (verb) to play possum. |
poupe | (Obs.) to befool, to cozen. |
pretence | the act of pretending. |
pretenceless | without pretence. |
pretend | to assume or display a false appearance of. |
pretendedly | (Adv.) PRETENDED. |
pretendingly | (Adv.) PRETENDING. |
pretense | (US) the act of pretending. |
prevaricate | to avoid telling the truth by being ambiguous, evading, or misleading. |
pseudograph | spurious writing; forgery. |
pseudologia | lying in speech or writing. |
pseudologue | a pathological liar. |
pseudology | the art or science of lying. |
puton | a hoax. |
ramp | an inclined plane, a slope; (verb) to swindle, esp by the practice of causing large, false increases in the price of shares etc. by dishonest means. |
ringster | a member of a ring, esp a price-fixing ring. |
ripoff | a swindle, an excessively high price. |
rook | a bird of the crow family (verb) to swindle |
roorbach | a defamatory falsehood published for political effect. |
roorback | a defamatory falsehood published for political effect. |
ruse | a deception. |
scam | (Sl.) a swindle; (verb) to swindle. |
scammer | one who perpetrates scams. |
scamster | one who perpetrates scams. |
schnook | (Yiddish) a stupid, easily deceived person. |
shaft | anything long and straight; (verb) to dupe, swindle. |
sham | to feign. |
sharker | one who lives by sharking, a swindler. |
sharper | a cheat or hoaxer, esp someone who cheats at cards. |
shavie | (Scots) a trick. |
shnook | (Yiddish) an unscrupulous person; a crook. |
shyster | one who is professionally unscrupulous esp in the practice of law or politics. |
simular | counterfeit, feigned; (noun, arch.) one that simulates, a dissembler. |
skelder | to beg; to swindle; to cheat. |
slanter | (Aust. sl.) a dodge, a trick. |
slenter | (Aust. sl.) a dodge, a trick. |
slinter | (Aust. sl.) a dodge, a trick. |
sophistic | relating to sophistry. |
sophistical | relating to sophistry. |
sophistry | deceptively subtle reasoning or argumentation; an argument used to deceive. |
speciosity | the state of being specious. |
speciousness | the state of being specious. |
spieler | a swindler or card-sharper; a gambling den. |
spoof | a parody (verb) to ridicule in fun |
spoofer | one who spoofs, a hoaxer. |
spoofery | the practice of spoofing. |
spuriosity | the state of being spurious. |
spurious | not genuine, sham. |
spuriously | (Adv.) SPURIOUS, not genuine. |
spuriousness | the state of being spurious. |
stiff | rigid (noun) a corpse; (verb, sl.) to cheat, rob |
subreption | a deliberate misrepresentation; an inference drawn from it. |
subreptitious | fraudulently obtained; surreptitious. |
subreptitiously | (Adv.) SUBREPTITIOUS, fraudulently obtained; surreptitious. |
subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal or evade. |
supercherie | (Fr.) deception, hoax, fraud. |
suppositious | fraudulently substituted. |
supposititious | fraudulently substituted. |
swiftie | (Aust. sl.) a trick, deception. |
swifty | (Aust. sl.) a trick, deception. |
swindle | a fraud, a cheat; (verb) to take money or property from by fraudulent means. |
swindler | one that swindles. |
swiz | a swindle; (verb) to deceive. |
swizzle | a fraud, a great disappointment; (verb) to defraud, cheat. |
thimblerig | a sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea; (verb) to cheat by trickery. |
thimblerigger | one who thimblerigs. |
thimblerigging | the act of thimblerigging. |
treacher | (Obs.) a traitor; a deceiver. |
trick | a deceitful device (verb) to deceive |
tricker | one who plays tricks. |
trickery | deception. |
trickie | full of tricks. |
trickiness | the state of being tricky. |
trickish | given to tricks. |
trickishly | (Adv.) TRICKISH, given to tricks. |
trickless | without tricks. |
tricksily | (Adv.) TRICKSY, tricky. |
tricksome | full of tricks. |
tricksy | exhibiting artfulness; trickish. |
tricky | full of tricks. |
truqueur | (Fr.) one who engages in trucage, the faking of works of art. |
unbeguile | to set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. |
undeceivable | not deceivable. |
undeceiver | one who undeceives. |
untruth | something that is untrue. |
weasel | a small carnivore with long slender body, furtive and bloodthirsty (verb) to get out of something by devious means |
weaseler | one who weasels. |
weaseller | one who weasels. |
weaselly | like a weasel, shifty. |
wile | a trick, device (verb) to beguile, inveigle |
wileful | full of wiles; trickish; deceitful. |
wyle | to beguile. |
yanker | (Scots) a rap; a big lie. |