deceit Synonyms

deception fraudulence dissimulation trickery fraud stratagem deceitfulness guile duplicity underhandedness misrepresentation trick dissembling slickness pretense trapping shiftiness slyness sneakiness tergiversation swindle swindling subterfuge subreption stealth sophistry sophism sham shadiness perjury perfidy perfidiousness peccability overreaching mystification mountebankery mistakenness misstatement misinformation pharisaism phariseeism sanctimony ruse rascality quackery prevarication pretence prestidigitation posturing ploy