| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | One who fakes: charlatan, fake, faker, fraud, impostor, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack. See TRUE. | | VERB: | To cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation: beguile, betray, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, fool, hoodwink, mislead, take in, trick. Informal : bamboozle, have. Slang : four-flush. Idioms: lead astray, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, put something over on, take for a ride. See HONEST.
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