engaño

Definitions of engaño
  1. noun
    the act of deceiving
    synonyms: disimulación
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    dilación
    deceitful action that is not straightforward
    ardid, artería, astucia, embaucamiento, estratagema, farfolla, fullería, picaresca, sofisma
    the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    doble juego, doblez, duplicidad
    acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
    estafa, fraude, timo, trampa
    a deception for profit to yourself
    ilusión
    the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
    fachada, fingimiento, simulación
    the act of giving a false appearance
    imitación, impostura
    pretending to be another person
    obscurantismo
    a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
    farol
    the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
    camelo, engañifa, filfa, inocentada, mistificación, patraña
    something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
    fraude electoral, pucherazo
    an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
    apariencia
    pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
    simulación
    the enactment of a pretense
    afectación
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
    mascarada
    making a false outward show
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    falsedad, falsificación
    a willful perversion of facts
  2. noun
    the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
    synonyms: aletazo, arana, embaimiento, embaucamiento, engañifa, estafa, fraude, mangancia, petardo, pufo, superchería, timo, tocomocho, trapacería
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    camelo, engatusamiento
    a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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    fraude
    intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
  3. noun
    the activity of persuading someone to buy
    synonyms: estafa
  4. noun
    the quality of being crafty
    synonyms: astucia, doblez, duplicidad, falacia, falsedad, malicia, mentira, retrechería
  5. noun
    an understanding of something that is not correct
    synonyms: equivocación, malentendido
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    concepto erróneo, concepto falso
    an incorrect conception
  6. noun
    a misleading falsehood
    synonyms: fraude
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    verdad a medias
    a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
    apariencia, camuflaje, fachada
    a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
    exageración
    making to seem more important than it really is
    fingimiento
    pretending with intention to deceive
    callejuela, efugio, rodeo, socapa, subterfugio, tapujo
    something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
    mistificación, tejemanejes, trampa, trapicheo
    verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
    doblez, duplicidad
    a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
    equívoco, evasión
    a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
    bluff, fanafarronada, farol
    pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
    achaque, asidero, cubierta, pretexto
    something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
    hipocresía
    an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
    circunlocución, circunloquio
    an indirect way of expressing something
    evasiva, sutileza
    an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
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    falsedad, infundio, mentira
    a false statement
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