We’re providing this list of answers for “Deception” based on its appearance in other puzzles, where similar wording led to the entries you see included here.
Answers:
- HOAX
- SCAM
- FLAM
- SNOWJOB
- TRICK
- TRICKERY
- CHICANE
- PUTON
- PUTUPJOB
- FRAUD
- BLUFF
- BETRAYAL
- LIE
- FAKERY
- DECEIT
- RUSE
- SHAM
- FALSITY
- DECEITFULNESS
- FRAUDULENCE
Synonyms and Definitions
HOAX
- Synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, play a joke on, pull someones leg, put-on
SCAM
- Synonyms: bunco, con, cozenage, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, swindle, victimize
TRICK
- Synonyms: antic, caper, conjuration, conjuring trick, fast one, flim-flam, fob, fox, illusion, john, joke, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, play a trick on, play tricks, prank, pull a fast one on, thaumaturgy, whoremaster, whoremonger
- Definition: an action or tool that is sly or dishonest
TRICKERY
- Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, shenanigan, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, wile
CHICANE
- Synonyms: carp, cavil, cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft, trickery
FRAUD
- Synonyms: fake, faker, hoax, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer
BLUFF
- Synonyms: bluff out, bold, four flush, sheer
BETRAYAL
- Synonyms: perfidy, treachery, treason
LIE
- Synonyms: consist, dwell, lie down, lie in, prevarication, rest
DECEIT
- Synonyms: dissembling, dissimulation, misrepresentation
RUSE
- Synonyms: artifice
SHAM
- Synonyms: affect, assume, assumed, dissemble, false, feign, fictitious, fictive, postiche, pretend, pretended, put on, simulate
FALSITY
- Synonyms: falsehood, falseness, untruth
DECEITFULNESS
- Synonyms: craftiness
FRAUDULENCE
- Synonyms: deceit, duplicity
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- TRICK also appears as an answer in Take in crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 letters.