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Fraudulency :: Fraudulency (n.) The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.

Hollowly :: Hollowly (adv.) Insincerely; deceitfully.

Humbug :: Humbug (n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.

Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it..

Jesuitism :: Jesuitism (n.) Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.

Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..

Double-eyed :: Double-eyed (a.) Having a deceitful look.

Glossy :: Glossy (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit..

Knave :: Knave (n.) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain..

Daedalian :: Daedalian (a.) Crafty; deceitful.

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

Deceitfulness :: Deceitfulness (n.) The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual..

Illusive :: Illusive (a.) Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.

Deceivable :: Deceivable (a.) Fitted to deceive; deceitful.

Deceitfulness :: Deceitfulness (n.) Tendency to mislead or deceive.

Culpa :: Culpa (n.) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart..

Infidelity :: Infidelity (n.) Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant..

Double Dealer :: Double dealer () One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person..

Gnathonical :: Gnathonical (a.) Flattering; deceitful.

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