| means | (noun) a person who is tricked or swindled
victim, dupe |
| means | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
cheat, rig, swindle |
| means | (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
dodging, dodge, scheme |
| means | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
fraudulence, hoax, dupery, fraud, humbug, put-on |
| means | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment
muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool, fool |
| means | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
mug, soft touch, fall guy, patsy, gull, chump, mark, sucker, fool |
| means | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house"
lead astray, deceive, betray |
| means | (verb) subject to a playful hoax or joke
hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's leg |
| means | (verb) be false to; be dishonest with
cozen, delude, lead on, deceive |
| means | (verb) influence by slyness
beguile, juggle, hoodwink |
| means | (verb) make a fool or dupe of
gull, befool, fool |
| means | (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
rip off, cheat, chisel |
| means | (verb) trick or deceive
humbug |
| means | (verb) deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
victimize, hornswoggle, rook, gip, swindle, con, goldbrick, scam, mulct, nobble, gyp, defraud, diddle, short-change, bunco |
| means | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
palter, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate, beat around the bush |
| means | (verb) deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"
play a joke on, play tricks, fox, flim-flam, fob, trick, pull a fast one on, play a trick on |
| means | (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
interpolate, alter, falsify |
| means | (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
cheat, chisel |
| means | (verb) avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
bunk, beat |
| means | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
put off, skirt, hedge, fudge, dodge, circumvent, duck, elude, sidestep, evade, parry |
| means | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
distort, warp, garble, falsify |
| means | (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
cuckold, cheat on, wander, betray, cheat |
| means | (verb) falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records"
falsify |
| means | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
bamboozle, pull the wool over someone's eyes, hoodwink, play false, snow, lead by the nose |
| means | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
crush, vanquish, beat out, trounce, shell, beat |
| means | (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country"
betray, sell |
| means | (verb) make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"
victimize, victimise |
| means | (verb) tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"
lie |
| means | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
wangle, finagle, manage |
| means | (verb) represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"
misrepresent, belie |
| means | (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
forge, fake, counterfeit |
| means | (verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components; "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit"
juggle |
| means | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
sweet-talk, inveigle, blarney, coax, cajole, wheedle, palaver |
| means | (verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is
bluff |
| means | (verb) make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"
mask, disguise |
| means | (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
misrepresent, wangle, fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook |
| means | (verb) prove false; "Falsify a claim"
falsify |