misguiding Synonym

pretext, excuse, guise, facade, charade, simulation, affectation, deception, subterfuge, masquerade, cover, front, sham, ruse, feint, bluff, artifice, ploy, stratagem, trick, hoax, illusion, falsehood, lie, fabrication, invention, prevarication, dissimulation, duplicity, deceit, imposture, hypocrisy, insincerity, falsity, mendacity, pretextual, camouflage, cloak, veil, mask, dissemblance, feigning, misrepresentation, pretension, semblance, show [x]

falsehood, untruth, lie, deceit, fabrication, mendacity, prevarication, fib, inaccuracy, misrepresentation, falsification, deception, dishonesty, fallacy, canard, myth, fiction, hoax, sham, fraud, forgery, counterfeit, perjury, duplicity, guile, trickery, chicanery, subterfuge, pretense, illusion, delusion, misstatement, distortion, misreport, calumny, slander, libel, aspersion, defamation, disinformation, misinformation, untruthfulness, mendaciousness, spuriousness, speciousness, insincerity, hypocrisy, charade, bluff, ruse [x]

deceit, deception, double-dealing, fraud, dishonesty, treachery, trickery, guile, chicanery, hypocrisy, insincerity, perfidy, cunning, craftiness, dissimulation, duplicateness, falseness, imposture, pretense, subterfuge, two-facedness, unfaithfulness, betrayal, artifice, cheating, collusion, double-cross, double-facedness, double-mindedness, faithlessness, falsity, feint, flimflam, fraudulence, infidelity, knavery, mendacity, pretension, ruse, scam, sharp practice, slyness, stratagem, swindle, treason, trick, underhandedness, untruthfulness [x]

pretend, simulate, fake, assume, bluff, counterfeit, sham, act, masquerade, dissemble, fabricate, invent, forge, imitate, affect, pose, put on, play-act, make believe, put up a front, give the appearance of, go through the motions, play the part, play the role, put on an act, put on a show put on a facade, put on a front, put on airs, make a pretense of, make a show of, make out, make as if, make like, make a pretense, make a show, make a false show, make a false display, make a false front, make a false appearance, make a false impression, make a false representation, make a false pretense, make a false pretext, make a false claim, make a false assertion, make a false statement, make a false declaration [x]

deceptive-appearance, false-front, illusion, facade, pretense, guise, masquerade, charade, sham, disguise, mirage, hoax, bluff, ruse, trickery, deceit, delusion, subterfuge, camouflage, cover-up, feint, artifice, pretext, simulation, imposture, misrepresentation, phantasm, semblance, veneer, mask, cloak, false-show, false-impression, false-image, false-facade, false-frontage, false-guise, false-appearance, false-pretense, false-illusion, false-mirage, false-deceit, false-delusion, false-subterfuge, false-camouflage, false-cover-up, false-feint, false-artifice [x]

deceit, pretense, hypocrisy, duplicity lying, bluffing feigning, faking, shamming, masking, concealing, camouflaging, covering, hiding, cloaking, dissimulation, misrepresentation, subterfuge, guile, craftiness, cunning, insincerity, mendacity, falsehood, trickery, chicanery, artifice, fraudulence, imposture, prevarication, obfuscation, evasion, charade, masquerade, ruse, stratagem, ploy, pretext, guise, facade, front, veneer, affectation, pose, act, sham, bluff, feint [x]

deceiving, fibbing, falsifying, fabricating, misrepresenting, prevaricating, dissembling, bluffing, misleading, cheating, inventing, distorting, exaggerating, equivocating, perjuring, feigning, duping, conning, tricking, hoodwinking, deluding, bamboozling, shamming, pretending, counterfeiting, faking, forging, hoaxing, spoofing, scamming, swindling, defrauding, guile, mendacity, dishonesty, untruthfulness, deceitfulness, duplicity, falsehood, insincerity, perfidy, treachery, trickery, chicanery, subterfuge, guilefulness, mendaciousness, pretense, simulation, charlatanism [x]

false, fake, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, phony, sham, deceptive,, fallacious, specious, forged, inauthentic, unauthentic, feigned, pretended, mock, pseudo, ersatz, artificial, simulated, contrived, fabricated, concocted, trumped-up, apocryphal, dubious, questionable, suspect, untrue, invalid, illegitimate, groundless, baseless, unfounded, hollow, empty, insincere, deceitful, dishonest, mendacious, erroneous, mistaken, unsubstantiated, spurious [x]

deception, fraud, counterfeit, sham, hoax, trickery, deceit, imposture, forgery, pretense, fabrication, scam, charade, phony, illusion, subterfuge, duplicity, bluff, con, ruse, swindle, cheat, guile, chicanery, artifice, masquerade, pretext, feint, stratagem, dissimulation, falsehood, misrepresentation, legerdemain, skulduggery, quackery, humbug, jiggery-pokery, sleight, bamboozlement, hoodwinking, collusion, double-dealing, treachery, trick, delusion, mendacity, falsification [x]

trickery, deception, deceit, fraud, subterfuge, duplicity, dishonesty, artifice, guile,, slyness, craftiness, manipulation, underhandedness, skulduggery, shenanigans, intrigue, legerdemain, stratagem, ruse, wile, dodge, machination, pretense, bluff, hoax, scam, swindle, con, bamboozlement, finagling, hoodwinking, double-dealing, misrepresentation, obfuscation, sophistry, chicane, jiggery-pokery, hanky-panky, monkey business, sharp practice, knavery, trick, cheat, imposture, chouse, humbug, flimflam [x]

cunning, craftiness, slyness, deceit, trickery, duplic, artfulness, wiliness, shrewdness, deviousness, subterfuge, chicanery, manipulation, ruse, stratagem, fraud, treachery, insidiousness, machination, intrigue, finesse, legerdemain, dissimulation, pretense, guilefulness, foxiness, knavery, craft, sharpness, sneakiness, perfidy, mendacity, dishonesty, trickiness, swindling, cheating, double-dealing, underhandedness, skulduggery, jiggery-pokery, artifice, chicane, dodge, wile, scam, con, hoax, imposture [x]

deception, trickery, deceit, evasion, cunning, ruse, stratagem, artifice, ploy, dodge, pretense, fraud, hoax, scheme, maneuver, bluff, chicanery, duplicity, guile, subterfuge, wile, pretext, cover-up, sham, feint, con, scam, trick, sleight, machination, imposture, charade, prevarication, misrepresentation, dissimulation, legerdemain, skulduggery, swindle, cheat, bamboozlement, hoodwinking, jiggery-pokery, chicane, finesse, gambit, intrigue, ruse de guerre [x]

deceiving, tricking, duping, misleading, fooling, bamboozling, conning, deluding, swindling, cheating, bluffing, hoaxing, beguiling, scamming, outwitting, hoodooing, flimflamming, snowing, spoofing, gulling, shamming, faking, jiving, finagling, snookering, rooking, defrauding, double-crossing, pulling the wool over, taking in, stringing along, leading astray, playing a trick on, pulling a fast one, putting one over, selling a bill of goods, playing for a sucker, playing for a fool, pulling the rug out from under, leading up the garden path, taking for a ride, putting one past, pulling a con, running a scam, running a game, running a hustle, running a con game, running a grift, running a racket [x]

trick, ruse, stratagem, deceit, deception, ploy, subterfuge, maneuver, scheme, wile, dodge, guile, cunning, craftiness, chicanery, duplicity, fraud, hoax, pretense, machination, contrivance, finesse, slyness, trickery, imposture, legerdemain, shenanigan, bluff, feint, gambit, scam, swindle, con, charade, illusion, pretext, ruse de guerre, artfulness, skulduggery, manipulation, trickiness, deceitfulness, craft, cunningness [x]

red herring, distraction, decoy, misdirection, diversion, false clue, misleading clue, false trail, blind alley, wild-goose chase, false scent, feint, bait, lure, trap, ruse, subterfuge, smokescreen, camouflage, cover-up, pretense, pretext, ploy, stratagem, artifice, trick, dodge, hoax, sham, bluff, masquerade, charade, prevarication, obfuscation, deceit, deception, misrepresentation, falsification, fabrication, fib, lie, untruth, canard, falsehood, invention, concoction, story, tale [x]