#knavery__dishonesty  lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
  supertype:  actus_reus__wrongdoing__misconduct  activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing"
  subtype:  treachery__betrayal__treason__perfidy  an act of deliberate betrayal
     subtype:  double_cross__double-crossing  an act of betrayal; "he gave us the old double cross"; "I could no longer tolerate his impudent double-crossing"
     subtype:  sellout  an act of betrayal
  subtype:  charlatanism__quackery  the dishonesty of a charlatan
  subtype:  trick  an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"
  subtype:  falsification__misrepresentation__falsehood  a willful act of falsifying
     subtype:  frame-up__frameup__setup  an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
     subtype:  overrefinement__distortion__straining__torture  the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
     subtype:  tergiversation__equivocation  falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
     subtype:  lying__prevarication__fabrication  the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
        subtype:  fibbing__paltering  a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
     subtype:  deception__deceit__dissembling__dissimulation  the act of deceiving
        subtype:  fakery  the act of faking (or the product of faking)
        subtype:  indirection.deception  deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"
        subtype:  chicanery__trickery__guile__wile__shenanigan  the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
           subtype:  fraudulence__fraud__dupery__hoax__humbug__put-on__puton  something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
              subtype:  goldbrick  anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
           subtype:  jugglery.chicanery  artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator's tax program was mere jugglery"
        subtype:  double-dealing__duplicity  acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
        subtype:  cheat__cheating  a deception for profit to yourself
           subtype:  gerrymander  an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
        subtype:  head_game__delusion__illusion  the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
        subtype:  pretending__pretense__pretence__simulation__feigning  the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
           subtype:  appearance.pretending__show  pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression; "they try to keep up appearances"; "that ceremony is just for show"
           subtype:  make-believe  the enactment of a pretense
           subtype:  affectation__mannerism__pose  a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
              subtype:  attitude  a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude"
           subtype:  masquerade  making a false outward show; "a beggar's masquerade of wealth"
        subtype:  imposture__impersonation  pretending to be another person
        subtype:  obscurantism  a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
        subtype:  four_flush__bluff  the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
     subtype:  forgery  criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

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