Trick+or+deceive
101hocus-pocus — [[t]ho͟ʊkəs po͟ʊkəs[/t]] N UNCOUNT (disapproval) If you describe something as hocus pocus, you disapprove of it because you think it is false and intended to trick or deceive people. It is unlikely he would have mistaken hocus pocus for genuine… …
102hoodwink — [[t]h ʊdwɪŋk[/t]] hoodwinks, hoodwinking, hoodwinked VERB If someone hoodwinks you, they trick or deceive you. [V n] People expect others to be honest, which is why conmen find it so easy to hoodwink people... [V n] Many people are hoodwinked by… …
103jerk someone's chain — pull someone s leg, trick someone, deceive someone …
104artifice — [ α:tɪfɪs] noun clever devices or expedients, especially to trick or deceive others. Origin ME (in the sense workmanship ): from OFr., from L. artificium, based on ars art + facere make …
105cozen — [ kʌz(ə)n] verb literary trick or deceive. Derivatives cozenage noun cozener noun Origin C16: perh. from obs. Ital. cozzonare to cheat …
106fake someone out — N. Amer. informal trick or deceive someone. → fake …
107fake — fake1 adjective not genuine. noun a person or thing that is not genuine. verb 1》 forge or counterfeit (something). ↘pretend to feel or suffer from (an emotion or illness). 2》 (fake someone out) N. Amer. informal trick or deceive someone.… …
108sell — verb (past and past participle sold) 1》 hand over (something) in exchange for money. ↘deal in. ↘be subject to a specified demand on the market: the book didn t sell well. ↘(sell out) sell all of one s stock of something. ↘(sell… …
109(a) put-up job — informal an attempt to trick or deceive someone. At the time he seemed honest enough, but later, after I d given him the money, I realized it was a put up job …
110cozen — v. a. Cheat, trick, defraud, deceive, swindle, chouse, dupe, gull, overreach, circumvent, beguile, victimize, take in, impose upon …
