Synonyms for Deception:

• n.

  •
  • honest.
  •
  • wile,
  • means,
  • take in.
  •
  • sell out.
  •ambush (noun)
  • hiding place,
  • waitings.
  •artifice (noun)
  • artifice.
  •artificiality (noun)
  • un naturalnesses,
  • un-naturalnesses,
  • un naturalness,
  • un-naturalness.
  •betrayal (noun)
  • double crossings,
  • dis-honesties,
  • dis honesties,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • double-crossings,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • dis-honesty,
  • judas kisses,
  • doublecrossings,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • un faithfulness,
  • dis honesty,
  • let downs.
  •bluff (noun)
  • braggings,
  • jivings,
  • pre texts,
  • pre-text,
  • pre text,
  • pre-texts.
  •casuistry (noun)
  • deceptivenesses,
  • over subtleness,
  • over-subtleness,
  • over-subtlenesses,
  • over subtlenesses,
  • oversubtlenesses.
  •catch (noun)
  • catch22,
  • fly in ointment,
  • fly ointment,
  • catch 22's,
  • catch22's,
  • catch-22's,
  • fly the ointment,
  • catch 22.
  •charade (noun)
  • dis guise,
  • panto mimes,
  • dis-guises,
  • pre-tension,
  • dis-guise,
  • pre tensions,
  • puton,
  • pre-tensions,
  • dis guises,
  • pre tension,
  • panto-mimes,
  • panto mime,
  • makebelieve,
  • panto-mime.
  •cheat (noun)
  • cozenings,
  • hoaxings,
  • fast shuffles,
  • bill goods,
  • fast ones,
  • buncos,
  • shady deals,
  • bamboozlements.
  •cheating (noun)
  • deceivings.
  •color (noun)
  • false show.
  •communication (noun)
  • deception,
  • misrepresentation.
  •con (noun)
  • gold bricks.
  •conjuration (noun)
  • conjuration.
  •conjuring trick (noun)
  • conjuring trick.
  •counterfeit (noun)
  • pseudi,
  • boguses,
  • re production,
  • re productions,
  • re-production,
  • junques,
  • re-productions.
  •deceit (noun)
  • dis-semblances,
  • overreachings,
  • dis-simulation,
  • dis simulation,
  • dis simulations,
  • dis-semblance,
  • dissimulations,
  • dis-simulations,
  • entrappings,
  • fraudulences,
  • dirty dealings,
  • mis-representation,
  • mis representations,
  • under handednesses,
  • mis-representations,
  • over-reaching,
  • over reaching,
  • dis semblance,
  • ambidextrousnesses,
  • defraudings,
  • dis semblances,
  • under-handednesses,
  • under handedness,
  • smoke mirrors,
  • mis representation,
  • under-handedness.
  •deception (noun)
  • forgery,
  • chicanery,
  • humbug,
  • magic,
  • flimflammery,
  • magic trick,
  • dissembling,
  • flimflam,
  • legerdemain,
  • hoax.
  •decoy (noun)
  • blind,
  • mirage,
  • bait,
  • lure.
  •delusion (noun)
  • over-sight,
  • over-sights,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis take,
  • fools paradise,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • mis-take,
  • self deceptions,
  • selfdeceptions,
  • fool paradise,
  • mis takes,
  • eidola,
  • over sight,
  • self-deceptions,
  • selfdeception,
  • over sights,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • mis-apprehension,
  • eidolons,
  • mis apprehension,
  • self deception.
  •disingenuousness (noun)
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • dis-ingenuousness.
  •double-dealing (noun)
  • doubledealing,
  • sharp practices,
  • bad faiths,
  • fourberies.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • shufflings,
  • amphibology,
  • runaround,
  • fibbing,
  • equivocality,
  • tergiversation,
  • coverup,
  • quibbling routine,
  • double meaning.
  •equivoque (noun)
  • in-definitenesses,
  • in definiteness,
  • un clearness,
  • un-clearnesses,
  • un-clearness,
  • ambiguous statements,
  • in definitenesses,
  • in-definiteness,
  • un clearnesses,
  • stonewallings.
  •fake (noun)
  • fourflushers,
  • pre-tender,
  • pre tenders,
  • four flushers,
  • pre tender,
  • four-flushers,
  • pre-tenders,
  • four flusher.
  •fallacy (noun)
  • in-validity,
  • in exactnesses,
  • pre-conception,
  • pre conception,
  • mis calculation,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • un truths,
  • faultinesses,
  • in-consistency,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • mis-calculation,
  • un-truths,
  • pre conceptions,
  • in validities,
  • in-consistencies,
  • mis calculations,
  • in consistency,
  • non sequiturs,
  • misconstruals,
  • mis interpretation,
  • mis interpretations,
  • in exactness,
  • in-exactness,
  • un-truth,
  • inexactnesses,
  • un truth,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • in consistencies,
  • in-validities,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • in validity,
  • quibblings,
  • mis-calculations.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • hogwash,
  • misstatement,
  • half truth,
  • fakery,
  • fallaciousness,
  • half truths,
  • fable,
  • Untruism,
  • feigning,
  • mis-statement,
  • fibbery.
  •falseness (noun)
  • in-fidelity,
  • dis loyalties,
  • false heartedness,
  • dis loyalty,
  • in fidelities,
  • dis-loyalties,
  • in fidelity,
  • in-fidelities,
  • dis-loyalty.
  •foul play (noun)
  • foul.
  •guile (noun)
  • stab the back,
  • stab back,
  • wilinesses.
  •hanky-panky (noun)
  • hankiepankies,
  • hokey pokey,
  • hankie pankies,
  • hokey pokeys,
  • mis-chief,
  • hankie-pankies,
  • hokey-pokeys,
  • mis chief,
  • hokeypokeys,
  • mis-chiefs,
  • hankiepankie,
  • funny businesses,
  • mis chiefs,
  • fooling arounds,
  • sexual activities,
  • hankie pankie,
  • hankypanky.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • Hocus,
  • incantation,
  • Mummeries,
  • gobbledegook,
  • magic words,
  • magic word,
  • mummery,
  • nonsense,
  • Occultism,
  • Hocuspocus.
  •hypocrisy (noun)
  • unctuousnesses,
  • dis play,
  • dissemblings,
  • dis plays,
  • false professions,
  • dis-play,
  • glibnesses,
  • pharisaicalnesses,
  • dis-plays.
  •ignis fatuus (noun)
  • Will-o-the-wisp,
  • will-o'-the-wisp,
  • will-o'-the-wisps.
  •illusion (noun)
  • mis conceptions,
  • mis impressions,
  • ignus fatuu,
  • mis-conceptions,
  • idolisms,
  • mis-conception,
  • mis impression,
  • mis beliefs,
  • mis-belief,
  • mis-impressions,
  • mis-beliefs,
  • misimpressions,
  • figment imagination,
  • paramnesias,
  • mis conception,
  • mis belief,
  • mis-impression,
  • misbeliefs.
  •inaccuracy (noun)
  • in-accuracy,
  • in correctnesses,
  • in accuracies,
  • unreliabilities,
  • in-correctness,
  • in-correctnesses,
  • in-accuracies,
  • un reliability,
  • un reliabilities,
  • in correctness,
  • un-reliability,
  • in accuracy,
  • un-reliabilities.
  •insincerity (noun)
  • in sincerity,
  • in-sincerity,
  • in sincerities,
  • in-sincerities.
  •inveracity (noun)
  • in veracity,
  • cock and bull story,
  • in veracities,
  • in-veracities,
  • in-veracity.
  •lie (noun)
  • de traction,
  • hyper-boles,
  • de-tractions,
  • hyper bole,
  • de-traction,
  • disinformations,
  • hyper-bole,
  • hyper boles,
  • de tractions,
  • dis-informations,
  • tall stories,
  • dis informations,
  • dis information,
  • dis-information.
  •masquerade (noun)
  • costume balls,
  • maskings.
  •misleading; being dishonest (noun)
  • juggling,
  • lying,
  • duplicity,
  • cozenage,
  • untruth,
  • circumvention,
  • dupery,
  • treachery,
  • trumpery,
  • boondoggle,
  • craftiness,
  • beguilement,
  • hokum,
  • trickery,
  • trickiness,
  • imposition,
  • dirt,
  • deceitfulness,
  • blarney,
  • Defraudation,
  • snow job.
  •mockery (noun)
  • sendups,
  • send ups,
  • send-ups,
  • take offs.
  •perjury (noun)
  • false oath,
  • false testimony.
  •pretense (noun)
  • pre-tense,
  • posings,
  • schticks,
  • pre tense,
  • pre-tenses,
  • pre tenses,
  • fakings,
  • dumb acts.
  •scam (noun)
  • crooked deal,
  • hosing,
  • sucker game.
  •sham (noun)
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • pre-tends,
  • pre tend,
  • hypo criticalnesses,
  • hypocriticalnesses,
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • pre tends,
  • hypo criticalness.
  •sleight of hand (noun)
  • conjurations,
  • escamotage.
  •sophism (noun)
  • fallacious argument.
  •sophistry (noun)
  • subtle arguments.
  •spoof (noun)
  • flim flams,
  • flim-flams,
  • bons mots,
  • flim flam.
  •stratagem (noun)
  • contrivance,
  • wrinkle,
  • game,
  • ruse,
  • dodge,
  • ploy,
  • Trojan Horse,
  • tactics,
  • device,
  • plot,
  • trick of the trade,
  • maneuver,
  • machination,
  • pitfall.
  •strategem (noun)
  • pro positions,
  • pro position,
  • pro-positions.
  •swindle (noun)
  • frameup,
  • frame ups,
  • frameups.
  •treason (noun)
  • lese-majestes,
  • breach faith,
  • sub-version,
  • re-volt,
  • re volt,
  • lesemajestes,
  • lese majestes,
  • re volts,
  • sub versions,
  • re-volts,
  • lesemajeste,
  • lese-majeste,
  • sub-versions,
  • seditious acts,
  • dis affection,
  • dis affections,
  • sub version,
  • dis-affection,
  • dis-affections.
  •trick (noun)
  • cover-up.
  •two-facedness (noun)
  • two facedness,
  • twofacedness.
  •wile (noun)
  • little game,
  • schemings.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • graft,
  • corruption,
  • dramatics,
  • obscurantism,
  • newspeak,
  • pretension,
  • play-acting,
  • foul play,
  • ambush,
  • facade,
  • double talk,
  • sleaze,
  • rigging,
  • crocodile tears,
  • skulduggery,
  • cant,
  • hot air,
  • smoke and mirrors,
  • turpitude,
  • gentility,
  • Maneuvering,
  • loophole,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • doublespeak,
  • pose,
  • shenanigan,
  • collusion,
  • misconduct.
  •
  • the black arts,
  • air,
  • histrionics,
  • camouflage,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • front,
  • piety,
  • veneer,
  • gimmick.
  •
  • cunning.
  •
  • show.
  •
  • act.
  •charlatanism
  • quackery.
  •deceit
  • monkey business.
  •distortion
  • smear.
  •mask
  • disguise.
  •Other relevant words:
  • foolishness,
  • espieglerie,
  • slickness,
  • bogus,
  • surmise,
  • varnish,
  • Gulling,
  • competence,
  • bring,
  • Fudging,
  • pretence,
  • secrecy,
  • posing,
  • Duping,
  • bravado,
  • crock,
  • necessity,
  • simulacrum,
  • bombast,
  • naughtiness,
  • borrow,
  • story,
  • deceive,
  • cog,
  • colouring,
  • pettifogging,
  • fetch,
  • plan,
  • appearance,
  • intrigue,
  • underhandedness,
  • excuse,
  • above,
  • evasiveness,
  • obstinacy,
  • shift,
  • Fooling,
  • malarkey,
  • crooked,
  • trip,
  • fictitious,
  • kid,
  • assume,
  • confidence game,
  • Thaumaturgy,
  • tour de force,
  • perjury,
  • erroneous,
  • rodomontade,
  • fallacious,
  • sting,
  • superstition,
  • disrepute,
  • defalcation,
  • pretext,
  • unreal,
  • skill,
  • credulousness,
  • meretriciousness,
  • vision,
  • artificial,
  • pipe dream,
  • spoofing,
  • Puffery,
  • captivate,
  • invisibility,
  • bigotry,
  • vapor,
  • false,
  • Kidding,
  • expertness,
  • Thimblerigging,
  • mastery,
  • quibbling,
  • gilt,
  • seeming,
  • consider,
  • concealment,
  • fictional,
  • distraction,
  • mock attack,
  • bragging,
  • Self-delusion,
  • Panurgy,
  • acting,
  • simulation,
  • eyewash,
  • manoeuvre,
  • gammon,
  • secretion,
  • invention,
  • adroitness,
  • goings-on,
  • face,
  • Flam,
  • faithlessness,
  • supercherie,
  • crime,
  • have,
  • mendaciousness,
  • knack,
  • infatuation,
  • entanglement,
  • charlatanism,
  • strategy,
  • dishonorable,
  • faking,
  • occupy,
  • bluster,
  • hollow,
  • believe,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • simulated,
  • expedient,
  • covering,
  • homicide,
  • double-talk,
  • mischief,
  • ride,
  • corrupt,
  • con game,
  • enchant,
  • Pipelaying,
  • boasting,
  • Subreption,
  • Humbuggery,
  • prank,
  • Hyperorthodoxy,
  • semblance,
  • juggle,
  • slyness,
  • stance,
  • defraud,
  • antic,
  • window dressing,
  • guilefulness,
  • dream vision,
  • wishful thinking,
  • wrong,
  • craft,
  • conspiracy,
  • cram,
  • fabrication,
  • dishonest,
  • empty,
  • artful dodge,
  • address,
  • representation,
  • apocryphal,
  • self-deceit,
  • bubble,
  • dodging,
  • burying,
  • dictate,
  • shuck,
  • gyp,
  • falsity,
  • skillfulness,
  • disgrace,
  • mystification,
  • excellence,
  • wheeze,
  • perfidiousness,
  • Charlatanry,
  • mare's-nest,
  • suppose,
  • darkening,
  • overreaching,
  • false belief,
  • likeness,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • puzzle,
  • tactic,
  • ersatz,
  • incorrect,
  • gloss,
  • tomfoolery,
  • Covertness,
  • dreamworld,
  • John,
  • dream,
  • impose,
  • deviousness,
  • clouding,
  • Dexterousness,
  • plant,
  • burial,
  • Swindling,
  • coloring,
  • Cullibility,
  • Improbity,
  • indirection,
  • betray,
  • Misjudgment,
  • hallucination,
  • chouse,
  • rip off,
  • Barney,
  • attract,
  • substitute,
  • MALA FIDES,
  • receipt,
  • art,
  • suspect,
  • foxiness,
  • misapprehension,
  • conjury,
  • coloured,
  • dexterity,
  • put on,
  • covering up,
  • delude,
  • roguishness,
  • faithless,
  • song and dance,
  • unfaithful,
  • dishonor,
  • nostrum,
  • roguery,
  • ruse de guerre,
  • Concealedness,
  • embezzlement,
  • Defrauding,
  • chimera,
  • treacherousness,
  • head game,
  • insidiousness,
  • untrue,
  • fancy,
  • hook,
  • confidence trick,
  • Phantasm,
  • Bluffing,
  • white lie,
  • cover,
  • shenanigans,
  • false swearing,
  • fantasy,
  • vapour,
  • affectation,
  • gambit,
  • mastership,
  • alternative,
  • smokescreen,
  • fib,
  • gullibility,
  • dishonesty,
  • not real,
  • faulty,
  • daydream,
  • draw,
  • hiddenness,
  • net,
  • Obscuration,
  • scheme,
  • crookery,
  • Phariseeism,
  • posture,
  • dreamland,
  • racket,
  • caper,
  • credulity,
  • attitudinizing,
  • screening,
  • imaginary,
  • false move,
  • Obscurement,
  • occultation,
  • proficiency,
  • fiction,
  • antics,
  • swizz,
  • performance,
  • hustle,
  • befooling,
  • gasconade,
  • phantasy,
  • bilk,
  • swizzle,
  • manipulation,
  • manslaughter,
  • spurious,
  • hiding,
  • carry,
  • mistake,
  • fiddle,
  • imitative,
  • joke,
  • guess,
  • bewitch,
  • finesse,
  • fraudulent,
  • facility,
  • infidelity,
  • false impression,
  • Callidity,
  • invocation,
  • whitewash,
  • Covin,
  • Dissemblance,
  • dirty work,
  • deceitful,
  • airy nothing,
  • beguile,
  • shrewdness,
  • playacting,
  • sidestep,
  • infer,
  • ostentation,
  • masking,
  • factitious,
  • hoodwinking,
  • interment,
  • sophistry,
  • disloyal,
  • four-flushing,
  • mendacious,
  • enrapture,
  • artfulness,
  • autism,
  • jest,
  • error,
  • leg-pull,
  • murder.

Paraphrases for Deception:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    deceit.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cheating, trickery, deceit.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    delusion, evasion.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    treason, ruse, decoy, lie, misleading, con, disillusion, falsification, forgery, frustration, fraudster, ploy, cover-up, mistake.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Defrauding, Involving, misleading.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disappointment, scam, dishonesty, prevarication, disinformation, misinformation, hoax, treachery, Swindling, illusion, betrayal, falsehood, circumvention, mendacity, swindle, trick, seduction, sham, disillusionment, concealment, manipulation, disenchantment.

Antonyms for Deception:

• n.

  • misleading; being dishonest
    honor, openness, uprightness, forthrightness, faithfulness, loyalty, sincerity, honesty, truth, trustworthiness, frankness, truthfulness.
  • trick
    reality.
  • Other antonyms:
    directness, candidness, plainspokenness, righteousness, incorruptibility, simplicity, trustability, plainness, decency, dependability, guilelessness, reliableness, good faith, goodness, reliability, virtuousness, veracity, solidity, trustiness, artlessness.

Homophones for Deception:

• disputation, decapitation, dissipation, djiboutian, Disceptation.

Hypernym for Deception:

• n.

  • communication
    overstatement, slickness, snow job, feigning, jiggery-pokery, hocus-pocus, fraudulence, pretence, half-truth, humbug, trickery, facade, equivocation, evasion, pretense, Hanky Panky, bill of goods, duplicity, dissembling, magnification, blind, snake oil, window dressing, skulduggery, subterfuge, exaggeration, skullduggery.

Hyponym for Deception:

• n.

  • communication
    falsity, falsehood, untruth.