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Best answers for Deception – Crossword Clue


Answer: con


Clue Length Answer
Deception3 letterscon
  1. Definition: 1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Deception3 letterslie
  1. Definition: 1. be and remain in a particular state or condition

Deception4 lettersscam
  1. Definition: 1. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

Deception4 letterstrap
  1. Definition: 1. catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"

Deception4 letterstrip
  1. Definition: 1. a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"

Deception4 lettersshow
  1. Definition: 1. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

Deception4 lettersflam

    Deception4 lettersruse
    1. Definition: 1. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

    Deception4 lettershoax
    1. Definition: 1. subject to a playful hoax or joke

    Deception4 letterssell
    1. Definition: 1. persuade somebody to accept something; "The French try to sell us their image as great lovers"

    Deception4 letterssham
    1. Definition: 1. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

    Deception5 lettersfault
    1. Definition: 1. responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault"

    Deception5 lettersdream
    1. Definition: 1. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

    Deception5 letterstrick
    1. Definition: 1. in heraldry, a sketch of a coat of arms in outline.

    Deception5 lettersspoof
    1. Definition: 1. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

    Deception5 lettersbluff
    1. Definition: 1. Deception

    Deception5 letterssnare
    1. Definition: 1. entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"

    Deception5 lettersvapor
    1. Definition: 1. the process of becoming a vapor

    Deception5 lettersputon

      Deception5 letterscheat
      1. Definition: 1. defeat someone through trickery or deceit

      Deception5 lettersguile
      1. Definition: 1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

      Deception5 lettersfraud
      1. Definition: 1. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

      Deception6 lettersvision
      1. Definition: 1. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

      Deception6 lettersdeceit
      1. Definition: 1. the act of deceiving

      Deception6 lettersfakery
      1. Definition: 1. the act of faking (or the product of faking)

      Deception7 letterspretext
      1. Definition: 1. an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

      Deception7 lettersfalsity
      1. Definition: 1. a false statement

      Deception7 letterssophism
      1. Definition: 1. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

      Deception7 lettersseeming
      1. Definition: 1. give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect;

      Deception7 lettersvarnish
      1. Definition: 1. cover with varnish

      Deception7 lettersuntruth
      1. Definition: 1. a false statement

      Deception7 letterssecrecy
      1. Definition: 1. the trait of keeping things secret

      Deception7 lettersfinesse
      1. Definition: 1. subtly skillful handling of a situation

      Deception7 lettersswindle
      1. Definition: 1. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

      Deception7 lettersfiction
      1. Definition: 1. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

      Deception7 lettersrip-off
      1. Definition: 1. the act of stealing

      Deception8 letterssnow-job

        Deception8 lettersbetrayal
        1. Definition: 1. an act of deliberate betrayal

        Deception8 lettersspoofing

          Deception8 letterspretense
          1. Definition: 1. the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"

          Deception8 letterspretence
          1. Definition: 1. the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"

          Deception8 lettersillusion
          1. Definition: 1. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

          Deception8 lettersartifice
          1. Definition: 1. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

          Deception8 letterstrickery
          1. Definition: 1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

          Deception9 letterssophistry
          1. Definition: 1. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

          Deception9 letterssemblance

            Deception9 letterssecretion
            1. Definition: 1. a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell

            Deception9 lettersimposture
            1. Definition: 1. pretending to be another person

            Deception9 lettersfalsehood
            1. Definition: 1. the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

            Deception9 letterschicanery
            1. Definition: 1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

            Deception10 letterssubterfuge
            1. Definition: 1. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"

            Deception10 lettersimposition

              Deception10 letterssimulacrum

                Deception10 letterssimulation
                1. Definition: 1. the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"

                Deception10 letterspretension
                1. Definition: 1. a false or unsupportable quality

                Deception11 lettersskulduggery
                1. Definition: 1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

                Deception11 lettersfraudulence

                  Deception12 lettersspeciousness

                    Deception13 lettersvictimization

                      Deception13 lettersdeceitfulness
                      1. Definition: 1. the quality of being crafty

                      Deception13 lettersfunnybusiness

                        Deception14 lettersself-deception

                          Deception14 letterssong-and-dance

                            Deception14 lettersrepresentation
                            1. Definition: 1. a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract; "the sales contract contains several representations by the vendor"

                            Deception15 letterswindow-dressing

                              Deception16 letterswrong-impression

                                Deception16 letterswishful-thinking


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