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Associations of "Deluded" (30 Words)
| bamboozle | Cheat or fool. He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well. |
| bilk | Evade; elude. Government waste has bilked the taxpayer of billions of dollars. |
| cheat | An act of cheating a fraud or deception. She always cheats at cards. |
| cheating | Violating accepted standards or rules. |
| chicanery | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. Storylines packed with political chicanery. |
| conspiracy | A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. They were cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. |
| cozen | Act with artful deceit. Do not think to cozen your contemporaries. |
| deceit | The quality of being fraudulent. A web of deceit. |
| deceive | (of a thing) give (someone) a mistaken impression. He had deceived her with another woman. |
| deception | A thing that deceives. Obtaining property by deception. |
| deceptive | Giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading. Deliberately deceptive packaging. |
| defraud | Deprive of by deceit. He used a second identity to defraud the bank of thousands of pounds. |
| dissimulation | A flock of small birds. His audience consisted of a dissimulation of birds. |
| fraud | A person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities. Prosecutions for social security frauds. |
| fraudulent | Intended to deceive – S.T.Coleridge. Fraudulent psychics. |
| hoax | Subject to a playful hoax or joke. A hoax 999 call. |
| hoodwink | Conceal one’s true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end. Staff were hoodwinked into thinking the cucumber was a sawn off shotgun. |
| humbug | Pretentious or silly talk or writing. His comments are sheer humbug. |
| liar | A person who tells lies. Shelley wasn t a good liar. |
| mulct | Deprive of by deceit. A rapacious old woman who would never miss the few dollars mulcted of her. |
| peculation | The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else. |
| perfidy | An act of deliberate betrayal. It was an example of his perfidy. |
| perpetrate | Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation. Perpetrate a crime. |
| phony | A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives. |
| rebel | Take part in a rebellion renounce a former allegiance. Tory rebels. |
| scam | Swindle. An insurance scam. |
| swindle | Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions. He swindled me out of my inheritance. |
| treacherous | Tending to betray especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans. Treacherous intrigues. |
| trick | A peculiar or characteristic habit or mannerism. That offer was a dirty trick. |
| trickery | The practice of deception. The dealer resorted to trickery. |