bamboozlers
Those who dupe
Bamboozlers are people who deceive or trick others through confusion or trickery.
The word carries a playful tone—bamboozlers are crafty rather than sinister, more con artists than criminals: The carnival bamboozlers got twenty dollars out of me with their rigged games.
Pretenders to special knowledge
- impostorsThose falsely claiming identity
- fraudstersPeople who deceive for gain
- swindlersDeceivers who steal through trickery
- cheatsDeceives for advantage
hoaxers · con artists · tricksters · mountebanks · fakers · shysters · grifters · scammers
Shrewd, devious cleverness
- slynessCunning in manner
- wilinessShrewd deceptive cleverness
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- deviousnessSneaky, underhanded quality
shrewdness · artfulness · slickness · foxiness · sneakiness · duplicity · chicanery · subtlety
Deliberate deception or fraud
- fakeryDeliberate deception or pretense
- duperyCalculated misleading of another
- charlatanryFraudulent claim to skill
- quackeryFraudulent medical practice
artifice · sleight of hand · misdirection · smoke and mirrors · hoodwinking · double-dealing · fast talk · obfuscation
charlatans
Pretenders to special knowledge
- impostorsThose falsely claiming identity
- fraudstersPeople who deceive for gain
- swindlersDeceivers who steal through trickery
cheats · hoaxers · con artists · tricksters · mountebanks · fakers · shysters · grifters · scammers · hustlers
craftiness
Shrewd, devious cleverness
deviousness · shrewdness · artfulness · slickness · foxiness · sneakiness · duplicity · chicanery · subtlety · underhanded
trickery
Deliberate deception or fraud
- fakeryDeliberate deception or pretense
- duperyCalculated misleading of another
- charlatanryFraudulent claim to skill
quackery · artifice · sleight of hand · misdirection · smoke and mirrors · hoodwinking · double-dealing · fast talk · obfuscation · beguiling
ploys
Deliberate deceptive tactics
swindles · hoaxes · tricks · stratagems · gambits · deceptions · flimflams · hustles · rackets · capers
bamboozlerstruth-tellers
Those who state facts
straight shooters · honest brokers · straight talkers · whistleblowers
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