indirection
knavery
delusively
ruse
subterfuge
low road
put-on
deception
hoax
humbug
fraudulence
fibbing
paltering
dupery
fraud
deceit
evasion
smirch
stain
dodging
blot
escape
spot
smear
assumed
primrose path
noodleism
Bad Thing
imbecility
mislead
false
fast one
trick
smoke screen
smokescreen
fake out
deceitfully
cozen
doubleness
imposition
feint
put-up job
piffle
trickery
pretendedly
mendaciously
play games
deceptively
play
dissembling
dissimulation
pull a fast one
shafting
illusion
act up
carry on
chisel
head game
lying
rip off
delusion
take for a ride
disquieting
pull the wool over someone's eyes
stalking horse
reconcealment
cheat
ackamarackus
bastardizing
double-faced
throw dust in someone's eyes
act
artifice
double-handed
diversionary
mongery
misleading
foxery
fraud in fact
stall
deceptive
positive fraud
stalling
jugglery
euchre
hoodwinking
charade
skulduggery
escape mechanism
hornswoggle

English words for 'deceitful action that is not straightforward'

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