DECEPTION

Definition:

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

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Related Words:

• 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