deception

1. A misleading falsehood (synset 106770936)
   is a type of: falsehood, falsity, untruth - a false statement
   subtypes:

   • bill of goods - communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable
   • humbug, snake oil - communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
   • half-truth - a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
   • facade, window dressing - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
   • exaggeration, magnification, overstatement - making to seem more important than it really is
   • snow job - a long and elaborate misrepresentation
   • dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense - pretending with intention to deceive
   • blind, subterfuge - something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
   • hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
   • duplicity, fraudulence - a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
   • equivocation, evasion - a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
   same as: deceit, misrepresentation
2. The act of deceiving (synset 100753774)
   is a type of: falsification, misrepresentation - a willful perversion of facts
   subtypes:

   • fakery - the act of faking (or the product of faking)
   • indirection - deceitful action that is not straightforward
   • chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
   • double-dealing, duplicity - acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
   • cheat, cheating - a deception for profit to yourself
   • delusion, head game, illusion - the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
   • feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation - the act of giving a false appearance
   • impersonation, imposture - pretending to be another person
   • obscurantism - a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
   • bluff, four flush - the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
   • take-in - the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone
   same as: deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
3. An illusory feat;
   Considered magical by naive observers (synset 100100771)
   is a type of: performance - the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment
   subtypes:

   • card trick - a trick performed with playing cards
   • prestidigitation, sleight of hand - manual dexterity in the execution of tricks
   same as: conjuration, conjuring trick, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick

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