Englishdeceit
noun
1 we are caught in an endless round of lies and deceit:
deception, deceitfulness, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, cheating, trickery, duping, hoodwinking, chicanery, underhandedness, deviousness, slyness, cunning, craftiness, craft, wiliness, artfulness, guile, dissimulation, dissembling, bluff, bluffing, lying, pretense, artifice, treachery;
informal crookedness, monkey business, funny business, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery;
North American, informal monkeyshines;
Irish, informal codology;
archaic management, knavery.
▷antonyms honesty.
2 their life is all a deceit:
sham, fraud, pretense, imposture, hoax, fake, misrepresentation, blind, wile, artifice, Trojan horse;
trick, stratagem, device, ruse, scheme, dodge, maneuver, contrivance, machination, deception, subterfuge, cheat, swindle, confidence trick;
informal con, con trick, setup, game, scam, sting, leg-pull, flimflam;
British, informal wheeze;
North American, informal bunco, grift;
Australian, informal lurk, rort;
South African, informal schlenter;
British, informal , dated flanker;
archaic shift, fetch, rig.