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DECEPTION

Definition:

[noun] a misleading falsehood
Synonyms: misrepresentation, deceit
[noun] the act of deceiving
Synonyms: deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
[noun] an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
Synonyms: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, illusion

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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
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
card trick
prestidigitation, sleight of hand