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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, quackery, monkey business, smear, disguise, 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, honest, wile, means, take in, sell out, hiding place, waitings, artifice, un naturalnesses, un-naturalnesses, un naturalness, un-naturalness, 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, braggings, jivings, pre texts, pre-text, pre text, pre-texts, deceptivenesses, over subtleness, over-subtleness, over-subtlenesses, over subtlenesses, oversubtlenesses, catch22, fly in ointment, fly ointment, catch 22's, catch22's, catch-22's, fly the ointment, catch 22, 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, cozenings, hoaxings, fast shuffles, bill goods, fast ones, buncos, shady deals, bamboozlements, deceivings, false show, deception, misrepresentation, gold bricks, conjuration, conjuring trick, pseudi, boguses, re production, re productions, re-production, junques, re-productions, 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, forgery, chicanery, humbug, magic, flimflammery, magic trick, dissembling, flimflam, legerdemain, hoax, blind, mirage, bait, lure, 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, dis ingenuousnesses, dis-ingenuousnesses, dis ingenuousness, dis-ingenuousness, doubledealing, sharp practices, bad faiths, fourberies, shufflings, amphibology, runaround, fibbing, equivocality, tergiversation, coverup, quibbling routine, double meaning, in-definitenesses, in definiteness, un clearness, un-clearnesses, un-clearness, ambiguous statements, in definitenesses, in-definiteness, un clearnesses, stonewallings, fourflushers, pre-tender, pre tenders, four flushers, pre tender, four-flushers, pre-tenders, four flusher, 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, hogwash, misstatement, half truth, fakery, fallaciousness, half truths, fable, Untruism, feigning, mis-statement, fibbery, in-fidelity, dis loyalties, false heartedness, dis loyalty, in fidelities, dis-loyalties, in fidelity, in-fidelities, dis-loyalty, foul, stab the back, stab back, wilinesses, 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, incantation, Mummeries, gobbledegook, magic words, magic word, mummery, nonsense, Occultism, Hocuspocus, unctuousnesses, dis play, dissemblings, dis plays, false professions, dis-play, glibnesses, pharisaicalnesses, dis-plays, Will-o-the-wisp, will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-the-wisps, 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, 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, in sincerity, in-sincerity, in sincerities, in-sincerities, in veracity, cock and bull story, in veracities, in-veracities, in-veracity, 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, costume balls, maskings, juggling, lying, duplicity, cozenage, untruth, circumvention, dupery, treachery, trumpery, boondoggle, craftiness, beguilement, hokum, trickery, trickiness, imposition, dirt, deceitfulness, blarney, Defraudation, snow job, sendups, send ups, send-ups, take offs, false oath, false testimony, pre-tense, posings, schticks, pre tense, pre-tenses, pre tenses, fakings, dumb acts, crooked deal, hosing, sucker game, hypo-criticalnesses, pre-tends, pre tend, hypo criticalnesses, hypocriticalnesses, hypo-criticalness, pre tends, hypo criticalness, conjurations, escamotage, fallacious argument, subtle arguments, flim flams, flim-flams, bons mots, flim flam, contrivance, wrinkle, game, ruse, dodge, ploy, Trojan Horse, tactics, device, plot, trick of the trade, maneuver, machination, pitfall, pro positions, pro position, pro-positions, frameup, frame ups, frameups, 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, cover-up, two facedness, twofacedness, little game, schemings, graft

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