Fraudulence and Deception

• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Cognition
• abuse
• alibi
• arrogate
• backslide
• bamboozle
• banditry
• barefaced
• baseness
• beat
• befool
• beguile
• betrayal
• bewitch
• bilk
• blackmail
• blind
• bluff
• bounce
• bucket shop
• bunko
• burn
• capper
• cardsharp
• cat's-paw
• catchy
• caught napping
• charlatan
• cheat
• chiaus
• chisel
• chump
• clip
• clip joint
• con
• con artist
• con man
• confidence game
• confiscation
• cop
• crib
• cully
• deceit
• deceive
• deception
• decoy
• defraud
• desertion
• devious
• diddle
• dirty trick
• discredit
• do a job on
• do a number on
• dodge
• double-cross
• double-dealing
• dupe
• easy mark
• embezzle
• extort
• fair-weather
• faithless
• fall guy
• filch
• finagle
• fink
• fink out
• fleece
• flimflam
• fool
• foul play
• fraud
• fraudulence
• front
• fuck over
• gaff
• go back on
• gouge
• graft
• greenhorn
• guile
• gull
• gyp
• highway robbery
• hoax
• hocus
• hoodwink
• hornswoggle
• ill-gotten
• illicit
• Indian giver
• infidelity
• insidious
• jerk around
• jilt
• Judas
• juggle
• kangaroo court
• lame
• launder
• lift
• loan shark
• mark
• milk
• monte
• montebank
• mooch
• nemesis
• nick
• nobble
• operator
• palm off
• palter
• parlous
• patsy
• pawky
• peculate
• perfidy
• pervert
• pettifogger
• pigeon
• pilfer
• pinch
• plunder
• Ponzi
• predatory
• prey
• profiteering
• pull a fast one
• pull the wool over someone's eyes
• purloin
• pushover
• pyramid
• quack
• quisling
• racket
• racketeer
• rat
• ratfink
• renege
• rip off
• robber baron
• rook
• runner
• sap
• scam
• scoundrel
• sell
• sell out
• setup
• shaft
• shake down
• sham
• shark
• shell game
• shill
• shlemiel
• short con
• shortchange
• shyster
• sitting duck
• skim
• skin game
• slicker
• snooker
• sponge
• squeeze
• steal
• sting
• string along
• sucker
• Svengali
• swindle
• swipe
• take advantage of
• take care
• thimblerig
• three-card monte
• tool
• traitor
• treachery
• turncoat
• two-faced
• unconscionable
• unscrupulous
• victimize
• walk off with
• wangle
• water
• weasel
• welsh
• wildcat
• wrong