Thesaurus:deceiver
English
Noun
Sense: a person who lies or deceives
Synonyms
- bamboozler
- bouncer (archaic)
- bullshitter
- cheat
- cheater
- cogger
- cony-catcher (obsolete)
- crammer (dated, British slang)
- deceiver
- deceptor (rare)
- fabricator
- fabulist
- falser (obsolete)
- gabber (obsolete)
- grifter
- guiler (obsolete)
- liar
- losenger (obsolete)
- mocker (archaic)
- pseudologist
- rook
- Scandaroon (obsolete)
- shammer
- Spanish athlete (euphemism)
- swindler
- swike (dialectal or obsolete)
- treacher (archiac)
- trickster
- trucker (dialectal)
- wernard (obsolete)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- abydocomist (obsolete)
- bullshitter
- charlatan
- confidence trickster [⇒ thesaurus]
- con artist [⇒ thesaurus]
- conman
- crap artist (US, slang)
- deceptress
- falsifier
- fibber
- flatterer
- fraud
- fraudster [⇒ thesaurus]
- imposter
- impostor
- medicaster
- mountebank
- pathological liar
- pious fraud
- pseudologue
- quack
- scammer
- smooth operator
- whillywha (Scotland)
Various
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “548. deceiver” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “deceiver” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.