Deception: alternatives and connections

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

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Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.

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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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of Cheat

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The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…

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Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

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The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

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of Dissemble

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Doubleness; a twofold state.

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The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.

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The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

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The act of heaping or piling up.

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The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, thoug…

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of Feign

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Alt. of Fraudulency

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Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

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An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

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An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

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Alt. of Impersonification

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The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

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Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

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The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

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The system or the principles of the obscurants.

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An exaggerated statement or account.

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Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.

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Alt. of Pretenceless

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of Pretend

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Alt. of Pretence

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The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what…

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The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

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That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or co…

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Imposition; fraud.

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The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

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A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

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Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

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The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

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The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

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Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person'…

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The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance o…

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The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

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The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.

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An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe wha…

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of Dissemble

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The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

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An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

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Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick.

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A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or b…

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Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person'…

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The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain.

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An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.

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