English words for 'a fraudulent or duplicitous representation'
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adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
noun
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
intj
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- (slang) Undesirable or harmful.
- (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
noun
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
adj
noun
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
- (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
- (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
verb
noun
verb
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
noun
- a deliberately misleading fabrication
- (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
- (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
- (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
- A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
noun
- Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement.
- a misleading falsehood
- (cartography) Faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
- Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
- a willful perversion of facts
noun
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
noun
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
- The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
- A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
- a willful perversion of facts
- the act of determining that something is false
- any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
- The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
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noun
adj
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- (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
- To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
- (Polari) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
- (specifically) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- (transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
- To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
verb
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
noun
noun
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
- One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
- A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.
- One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
verb
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (Internet) Short for pseudoelement.
- A poseur; one who is fake.
- (Internet, clipping) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
- (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code
- (derogatory) An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
- Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a theatrical performer
- (psychiatry) One of the ten classifications of necrophilia based on the increasing severity of the disorder as defined by the American forensic psychologist Anil Aggrawal (Class I).
- Alternative form of roleplayer.
- (basketball) A player who is not one of the best players on the team, but still makes a meaningful contribution.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
- The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
- Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
noun
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- writing in a fictional form
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood.
- (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
- (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
noun
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- (literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- (law) A legal fiction.
adj
- deliberately deceptive
- not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
- designed to deceive
- erroneous and usually accidental
- (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
- inaccurate in pitch
- inappropriate to reality or facts
- arising from error
- adopted in order to deceive
- not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
- (music) Out of tune.
- (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
- Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
- Based on factually incorrect premises.
- Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
- Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
- Spurious, artificial.
- Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
- Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
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noun
verb
adj
- (of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
- (slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
- (of food) Prepared by cooking.
- Hungover.
- (slang, especially Australia) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- (slang, chiefly predicative) In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
- (slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
- (computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
- Brain-damaged from drug use.
- having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
verb
noun
verb
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
noun
- a deliberately misleading fabrication
- (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
- (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
- (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
- A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
noun
- Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement.
- a misleading falsehood
- (cartography) Faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
- Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
- a willful perversion of facts
noun
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
noun
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
- The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
- A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
- a willful perversion of facts
- the act of determining that something is false
- any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
- The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
noun
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
- To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
- (Polari) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
- (specifically) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
- To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- (transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
- To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
noun
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
- intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
- Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- A person who performs any such trick.
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
- One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
- A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.
- One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
verb
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- (Internet) Short for pseudoelement.
- A poseur; one who is fake.
- (Internet, clipping) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
- (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code
- (derogatory) An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
- Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a theatrical performer
- (psychiatry) One of the ten classifications of necrophilia based on the increasing severity of the disorder as defined by the American forensic psychologist Anil Aggrawal (Class I).
- Alternative form of roleplayer.
- (basketball) A player who is not one of the best players on the team, but still makes a meaningful contribution.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
- The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
- Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
noun
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- writing in a fictional form
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood.
- (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
- (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
noun
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- (literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
- A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).
- (law) A legal fiction.
verb
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
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noun
adj
verb
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
noun
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
intj
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- (slang) Undesirable or harmful.
- (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
noun
adj
noun
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
- (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
- (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- (music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
adj
noun
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
- (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
- (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
verb
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
- deliberately deceptive
- not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
- designed to deceive
- erroneous and usually accidental
- (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
- inaccurate in pitch
- inappropriate to reality or facts
- arising from error
- adopted in order to deceive
- not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
- (music) Out of tune.
- (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
- Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
- Based on factually incorrect premises.
- Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
- Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
- Spurious, artificial.
- Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
- Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
adv
noun
verb
adj
- (of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
- (slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
- (of food) Prepared by cooking.
- Hungover.
- (slang, especially Australia) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- (slang, chiefly predicative) In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
- (slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
- (computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
- Brain-damaged from drug use.
- having been prepared for eating by the application of heat