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Wile :: Wile (n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement..

Disguise :: Disguise (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.

Lie :: Lie (n.) A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.

Coggery :: Coggery (n.) Trick; deception.

Circumvent :: Circumvent (v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around..

Mendacious :: Mendacious (a.) Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person..

Face :: Face (v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc..

Victimize :: Victimize (v. t.) To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat..

Deceit :: Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..

Aboveboard :: Aboveboard (adv.) Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception..

Ingannation :: Ingannation (n.) Cheat; deception.

Gleek :: Gleek (n.) A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.

Cog :: Cog (n.) A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..

Wary :: Wary (a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful..

Legerdemain :: Legerdemain (n.) Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick..

Overreach :: Overreach (v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.

Jilt :: Jilt (v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.

Tricky :: Tricky (a.) Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

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