Squeeze: to extort, or obtain by extortingĦ7. Sophistry: argument or reasoning intended to deceiveĦ6. Snow: to deceive (or charm or persuade)Ħ5. Shortchange: to cheat by giving less than is due, or to cheat in generalĦ4. Sham: a trick (also, hypocrisy, or a counterfeit or imitation)ĥ9. Shake down: an act of obtaining money deceptively (the noun form is a closed compound) to obtain money deceptivelyĥ6. Screw: to extort or trick (also, to pressure or threaten)ĥ5.
Scam: a deceptive or fraudulent act or operation to deceive or defraud by such actionĥ4. Rip off: an act of cheating or fraud (the noun form is hyphenated) to cheat or defraud (or to steal or copy)ĥ3. Put on: an act of deception or trickery (the noun form is hyphenated) to deceive or trickĥ1. Nobble: to cheat (especially, in British English, by drugging a racehorse)Ĥ9. Mulct: to defraud or obtain by fraud (also, a fine, or to fine)Ĥ7.
Legerdemain: to deceive by distraction or misleading (literally, “sleight of hand”)Ĥ6. Jugglery: deception or trickery in verb form ( juggle), to deceive or trickĤ5. Hustle: the act of deception to obtain or sell something to use deception to obtain or sell something, or to lure others to gambleĤ4. Humbug: something intended to deceive, or a deceptive person or attitude (also, nonsense) to deceiveĤ2. Hoax: an act of deception, or something intended to deceive to trick into accepting or believing something falseĤ1. Gyp: one who cheats or deceives, or an act of cheating or deception to cheatģ8 Have on: to deceive or trick (British English)ģ9. Gull: one who is easy deceived (the root of gullible) to deceiveģ7. Gaff: a fraud, trick, or gimmick to deceive or trick or set up a fraud or trickģ6. Gammon: deceitful talk to deceive or fakeģ5. Fudge: to fake or to go beyond the bounds of proper conductģ4. Front: an entity ostensibly responsible for something but masking the identity of the entity actually engaging in an endeavor to act as the masking agentģ3. Flimflam: fraud or deceit or to subject someone to fraud or deceitģ2. Fleece: to perpetrate extortion or fraud (or to charge excessively)ģ1. Fix: an act or instance of influencing illegally or improperly to influence illegally or improperlyģ0. Fiddle: see swindle (British English also, also, to deceive by altering or manipulating)Ģ9. Feint: a fake attack or blow intended to distract the target from a real assault to make such a moveĢ8. Euchre: to cheat or trick (also the name of a card game)Ģ7. Duplicity: using words or actions to deceiveĢ5. Dupe: one who fools another, or the act of fooling (as dupery, the act of fooling or the condition of being fooled) to deceive or trickĢ4. Dodge: an act of deceit or a trick to deceive or trickĢ3. Doctor: to alter or modify deceptivelyĢ2. Crib: a method or device for cheating on a test to cheat, or to have the habit of cheating, in this mannerĢ1. Craft: cunning (usually employed in the adjectival form crafty)ġ7. Cozenage: fraud (the verb form is cozen)ġ6. Con: one who cheats or manipulates, or an act or operation to that end to cheat or manipulate (from confidence)ġ5. Bunco: a game or scheme designed to cheat someoneġ2. Bluff: an act of deception or misdirection or to undertake such an actĩ. Bilk: one who defrauds to defraud (or evade or frustrate)ħ. Beguile: to deceive or trick (or to lure)Ĥ. Here is an exhaustive but incomplete list of synonyms in noun and/or verb form for cheat, fraud, and trickery.ģ. Human beings have developed cheating, fraud, and trickery into such a high art (or, more accurately, a low one) that, in English at least, we’ve created an extensive and colorful vocabulary to describe such activity.
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