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Collusion

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.

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Agreement 76% connected

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the mem…

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Arrangement 76% connected

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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Cahoot 76% connected

Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.

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Conspire 74% connected

To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

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Conspire 74% connected

To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

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Scheme 74% connected

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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Scheme 74% connected

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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Connivance 92% connected

Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.

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deixis noun · 78% connection

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Illation noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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the use of language to perform some act

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Aid verb · 78% connection

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to as…

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Artful adjective · 78% connection

Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]

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Barratry noun · 78% connection

A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…

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Betray verb · 78% connection

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an of…

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Bona fide unknown · 78% connection

In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fi…

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Cheat noun · 78% connection

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Circumvention noun · 78% connection

The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.

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Concurrence noun · 78% connection

Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation.

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Cooperation noun · 78% connection

the practice of cooperating; "economic cooperation"; "they agreed on a policy of cooperation"

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Covin noun · 78% connection

Deceit; fraud; artifice.

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Covinous adjective · 78% connection

Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.

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Craft noun · 78% connection

Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by…

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Culpa noun · 78% connection

Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect…

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Cunning adjective · 78% connection

The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.

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Cunningly adverb · 78% connection

In a cunning manner; with cunning.

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Deceitful adjective · 78% connection

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.

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Dishonest adjective · 78% connection

Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.

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Divulge verb · 78% connection

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- sai…

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