leg-pullers
Those who kid
Leg-pullers are people who tease or joke with others, especially by making them believe something false before revealing the deception.
The term comes from the expression pull someone's leg, meaning to playfully mislead: Don't listen to those leg-pullers—they're just having fun with you.
Those who mislead deliberately
- hoaxersThose who deceive deliberately
- fibbersThose who tell untruths
- bluffersThose who deceive boldly
- deceiversThose who mislead intentionally
charlatans · con artists · hoodwinkers · bamboozlers · dupers · misleaders · fabricators · tall tales
tricksters
Those who mislead deliberately
deceivers · charlatans · con artists · hoodwinkers · bamboozlers · dupers · misleaders · fabricators · tall tales · fibs
jokers
Clowns or wild cards
- teasersPromotional glimpses meant to entice
- prankstersThose who play jokes
- kiddersThose who joke around
jesters · wags · funsters · comedians · wisecrackers · quippers · banterers · mockers · joshing · jesting
leg-pullerstruth-tellers
Those who state facts
straight talkers · honest brokers · literalists · straight-shooters · straight shooters
leg-pullerssobersides
Habitually serious person
stuffed shirts · sticks-in-the-mud · wet blankets · killjoys · literalists
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