n
(obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
n
(by extension) Any similar deceptive behavior, especially in politics and romantic relationships.
v
(transitive) To play a trick on; to trick
v
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
n
(obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
v
(video games) To use bad manners.
n
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
n
(obsolete) Cheating; fraud.
adj
(informal) Involving cheating; fraudulent.
v
(intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
n
(UK) A disingenuous act or arrangement intended to provoke a desired response.
v
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
n
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
v
To trick, to impose on, to dupe.
n
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
n
A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
n
(in the plural) Unethical or illegal tactics used against an opponent.
n
An action which is intended to be perceived as a bluff, but which is not.
v
To trick someone by appearing to bluff, while not bluffing.
v
(transitive, informal) To deceive, mislead, or trick (someone).
n
(informal) A trick or deception.
n
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
n
The act of cheating or swindling.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To acquire goods fraudulently by having them specially made so as to be unsuitable for other customers, and then threatening not to take them except on credit.
v
(obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
n
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
v
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
v
(chiefly transitive) To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent reasons.
n
An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
v
To sing badly with the aim of soliciting donations out of sympathy.
n
The act of one who haggles.
n
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
n
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
n
An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).
n
A trick or deception put or laid on others.
v
(intransitive) To jest; play tricks.
n
(archaic) A deceit or imposture.
v
(transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
n
The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
v
To feign stupidity or ignorance of some knowledge, usually in order to avoid responsibility or gain some advantage.
v
Of one's eyes, mind, etc.: to deceive or mislead one.
n
The operation of criminal rackets.
n
(historical) A form of fraud in which a ring or other spurious article is supposed to be found just in front of the mark, who is tempted to buy it at a fraction of its claimed value.
n
Hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone early in an engagement.
v
(sports) To succeed in deceiving an opposing player with a feigned action.
n
Commercial activity that is possibly dishonest while not actually being illegal.
n
(dated) A shill; a confidence trickster.
n
A scam, ploy, fraud, trick.
n
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
n
(Internet slang) The practice of indirectly soliciting money or other material benefits from members of an online community, often with sad stories of personal or family hardship intended to evoke feelings of sympathy.
v
(intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
n
(obsolete) Foul play; an attack made by deceit.
v
(transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
v
(slang, US) Used to denote compounding levels of dare "seriousness"; the escalation of a double dog dare.
n
A devious person; a cheat or fraudster.
n
The act of one who wheedles.
v
(Internet slang, transitive, intransitive) To pretend to be woke on an online platform to deceive (someone).
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