jugglery
111gibberish — gibberish, mummery, hocus pocus, abracadabra are comparable as terms of contempt applied to something which is in itself unintelligible or meaningless to the person concerned. They are often used interchangeably but are not true synonyms.… …
112deceit — n 1. deception, dissimulation, hypocrisy, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane, trickery; jugglery, trumpery, dupery, hocus pocus, fraudulence, shenanigan; craft, wiles, guile, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle,… …
113delusion — n 1. misconception, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, misconstruction, misbelief; fallacy, error, mistake; self deception, fool s paradise; illusion, false impression, myth, ignis fatuus, will o the wisp, bubble; hallucination …
114feint — n 1. dodge, maneuver, false or deceptive move, mock attack, distraction; jugglery, sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation; trick, wile, ruse, artifice, deception, pretext, subterfuge, blind; bait, decoy, lure, trap, snare, Sl. plant. 2.… …
115guile — n cunning, duplicity, fraud, deception, deceit, subtlety, gamesmanship; artfulness, wiliness, slyness, foxiness, guilefulness, craftiness, wiles; finesse, shrewdness, slickness, shiftiness, insidious ness; chicanery, jugglery, skulduggery,… …
116hocus-pocus — n 1. mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, open sesame, magic word, magic formula; incantation, chant, invocation, conjuration, conjuring, evocation. 2. juggler s trick, jugglery, sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, Brit. hanky panky; feint,… …
117legerdemain — n 1. sleight of hand, jugglery, juggling, prestidigitation, conjuring, hocus pocus; magic, trickery, thaumaturgy. 2. deception, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane; trumpery, dupery,… …
118pass — v 1. go by, move past, flow, roll, run, stream, course; glide, slide, sweep, drift; proceed, progress, advance, gain ground; move onward, work one s way, wend one s way; run along, hie, hasten, make haste, hurry along, jog along, rush, zip, fly,… …
119prestidigitation — n 1. legerdemain, sleight of hand, jugglery, juggling, conjuring, hocus pocus; magic, trickery, thaumaturgy. 2. deception, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane; trumpery, dupery, fraudulence …
120ruse — n trick, stratagem, artifice, wile, contrivance; subterfuge, device, blind, sham, dodge; deception, deceit, maneuver, manipulation, machination, move, gambit, coup; feint, sleight, ploy, decoy; chicanery, jugglery, cheat, knavery; tactic, Sl.… …
