flimflammery
Tricks and cons
Flimflammery is deceptive nonsense or trickery—the practice of flimflamming.
The word suggests elaborate but transparent fraud, often with a theatrical quality: The salesman's flimflammery was obvious to everyone but my grandmother.
It carries a slightly old-fashioned, dismissive tone, implying the deception isn't sophisticated enough to take seriously.
Fraudulent medical practice
- mountebankTraveling seller of fake remedies
- impostorOne feigning another's identity
- snake-oilFraudulent cure-all
- charlatanFaker claiming false expertise
huckster · faker · phony · pretender · shyster · grifter · conman · swindler
Deliberate deception for effect
- shamFraudulent imitation
- bamboozleDeceive through cunning
- duperyCalculated misleading of another
- chicaneryDeception through clever manipulation
subterfuge · duplicity · artifice · guile · imposture · dissemble · pretext · feint
Dishonest money-making scheme
- swindleDeception for financial gain
- conArgument against
- griftSwindle or petty fraud
- forgeryCreating fraudulent imitations
counterfeit · phishing · embezzlement · bunko · falsification · racket · fleecing · bilk
Mischievous or deceitful behavior
- jiggery-pokeryDeceptive or dishonest behavior
- hocus-pocusDeceptive talk or tricks
- skulduggeryDishonest or unscrupulous behavior
- ruseDeliberate act of deception
ploy · bluff · dodge · gambit · stratagem · wile · gimmick · sleight
Cunning in manner
- wilinessShrewd deceptive cleverness
- craftinessShrewd, devious cleverness
- artfulnessClever, crafty skill
- foxinessShrewd, cunning nature
shrewdness · guile · sneakiness · deviousness · slipperiness · caginess · calculating · astuteness
quackery
Fraudulent medical practice
- mountebankTraveling seller of fake remedies
- impostorOne feigning another's identity
- snake-oilFraudulent cure-all
charlatan · huckster · faker · phony · pretender · shyster · grifter · conman · swindler · hoaxer
hoax
Deliberate deception for effect
chicanery · subterfuge · duplicity · artifice · guile · imposture · dissemble · pretext · feint · illusion
scam
Dishonest money-making scheme
forgery · counterfeit · phishing · embezzlement · bunko · falsification · racket · fleecing · bilk · hustle
shenanigans
Mischievous or deceitful behavior
- jiggery-pokeryDeceptive or dishonest behavior
- hocus-pocusDeceptive talk or tricks
- skulduggeryDishonest or unscrupulous behavior
ruse · ploy · bluff · dodge · gambit · stratagem · wile · gimmick · sleight · legerdemain
slyness
Cunning in manner
- wilinessShrewd deceptive cleverness
- craftinessShrewd, devious cleverness
- artfulnessClever, crafty skill
foxiness · shrewdness · guile · sneakiness · deviousness · slipperiness · caginess · calculating · astuteness · cleverness
flimflammeryhonesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
truthfulness · straightforwardness · candor · sincerity · forthrightness
flimflammeryauthenticity
Quality of being genuine
genuineness · legitimacy · substance · validity · soundness