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Associations of "Deluded" (30 Words)

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.