fraudulence dishonesty

self-deception misconception

hanky panky misrepresentation pretense humbug evasion dissembling skulduggery feigning facade trickery falsity fraudulence duplicity half-truth exaggeration deception pretence jiggery-pokery hocus-pocus magnification equivocation window dressing blind snow job overstatement skullduggery falsehood bill of goods slickness untruth subterfuge snake oil

head game wile fakery misrepresentation illusion imposture indirection four flush cheating chicane pretense chicanery dissembling simulation feigning obscurantism guile trickery pretending duplicity dissimulation deception bluff delusion pretence double-dealing take-in impersonation shenanigan falsification cheat