beguiler
One who misleads
A beguiler is someone who deceives or misleads, often through charm or cunning.
The word carries a slightly literary flavor and can suggest either malicious deception or harmless enchantment: a beguiler of innocent hearts, that old beguiler with his smooth talk.
Criminal deceiver for gain
- impostorOne feigning another's identity
- swindlerPerson who deceives for money
- tricksterCunning deceiver in myth
- charlatanFaker claiming false expertise
con artist · hoaxer · scammer · faker · phony · mountebank · grifter · cheat
Woman who entices
- enchantressWoman who uses sorcery
- sirenWailing alert device
- femme fataleTreacherous enchantress
- CasanovaProverbial ladies' man
Lothario · coquette · flirt · heartbreaker · charmer · vamp · Don Juan · Romeo
One who captivates listeners
- mesmerizerOne who entrances others
- hypnotistTrance-state practitioner
- sorceressFemale practitioner of magic
- wizardPractitioner of sorcery
magician · conjurer · witch · necromancer · illusionist · Circe · Merlin · Svengali
Crafty, deceitful planner
- conniverOne who schemes secretly
- puppet masterOne controlling figures backstage
- mastermindScheme's chief planner
- MachiavelliPolitical realism's founding theorist
operator · strategist · string-puller · intriguer · plotter · wheeler-dealer · power broker · spin doctor
fraudster
Criminal deceiver for gain
- impostorOne feigning another's identity
- swindlerPerson who deceives for money
- tricksterCunning deceiver in myth
charlatan · con artist · hoaxer · scammer · faker · phony · mountebank · grifter · cheat · pretender
temptress
Woman who entices
- enchantressWoman who uses sorcery
- sirenWailing alert device
- femme fataleTreacherous enchantress
Casanova · Lothario · coquette · flirt · heartbreaker · charmer · vamp · Don Juan · Romeo · ladykiller
spellbinder
One who captivates listeners
- mesmerizerOne who entrances others
- hypnotistTrance-state practitioner
- sorceressFemale practitioner of magic
wizard · magician · conjurer · witch · necromancer · illusionist · Circe · Merlin · Svengali · bewitcher
schemer
Crafty, deceitful planner
- conniverOne who schemes secretly
- puppet masterOne controlling figures backstage
- mastermindScheme's chief planner
Machiavelli · operator · strategist · string-puller · intriguer · plotter · wheeler-dealer · power broker · spin doctor · calculating
- smooth talkerssmooth talker, smooth-talker, sweet talker, sweet-talker, fast talker
- femme fatalesfemme fatale, seductress, temptress, vixen, enchantress
- deceiversliar, liars, deceiver, fraud, fake
- sorceressessorceress, enchantress, witch, Circe, Medea
beguilertruth-teller
One who speaks accurately
straight shooter · honest broker · straight talker · whistleblower · man of his word
beguile, beguiling, beguiled, beguilement, beguilers, beguiles