Loyalty and Cheating

Imtiaz Sarwar (South Korea)
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  1. credence
    the mental attitude that something is believable
  2. confidence
    belief in yourself and your abilities
  3. conviction
    an unshakable belief in something without need for proof
  4. allegiance
    the act of binding yourself to a course of action
  5. fealty
    the loyalty that one owes to a country, sovereign, or lord
  6. fidelity
    the quality of being faithful
  7. chivalrous
    attentive and honorable like an ideal knight
  8. steadfast
    marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
  9. stalwart
    having rugged physical strength
  10. guileless
    innocent and free of deceit
  11. trustworthy
    worthy of trust or belief
  12. unswerving
    going directly ahead without veering or turning aside
  13. betray
    deliver to an enemy by treachery
  14. bilk
    cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
  15. hoodwink
    conceal one's true motives from
  16. gull
    a mostly white aquatic bird found along beaches
  17. chisel
    an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
  18. swindle
    deprive of by deceit
  19. deceive
    cause someone to believe an untruth
  20. delude
    be dishonest with
  21. cozen
    be dishonest with
  22. treachery
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  23. trickery
    the use of cunning actions to deceive someone
  24. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  25. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  26. skulduggery
    misrepresentation intended to take advantage of someone
  27. deception
    a misleading falsehood
  28. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  29. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  30. hoax
    something intended to deceive
  31. ruse
    a deceptive maneuver, especially to avoid capture
  32. bluff
    a high steep bank
  33. perfidious
    tending to betray
  34. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  35. disaffected
    discontented as toward authority
  36. fickle
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  37. deceitful
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
  38. fraudulent
    intended to deceive
  39. sham
    something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
  40. malinger
    avoid responsibilities and duties, often by faking illness
  41. feign
    make believe with the intent to deceive
  42. simulate
    reproduce someone's behavior or looks
  43. dissimulate
    hide feelings from other people
  44. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  45. renegade
    someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
  46. turncoat
    a disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause
  47. gullible
    naive and easily deceived or tricked
  48. credulous
    showing a lack of judgment or experience
  49. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  50. naivete
    lack of sophistication or worldliness
  51. gullibility
    tendency to believe too readily and to be easily deceived
  52. credibility
    the quality of being believable or trustworthy
  53. Machiavellian
    of or relating to amoral or conniving political principles
  54. shoddy
    of inferior workmanship and materials
  55. bogus
    fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
  56. illusion
    an erroneous mental representation
  57. illusory
    having the nature of something unreal or deceptive
  58. rig
    equip with sails or masts
  59. mulct
    money extracted as a penalty
  60. waggish
    witty or joking
  61. phoney
    fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
  62. phony
    fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
  63. imposter
    a person who makes deceitful pretenses
  64. hocus-pocus
    verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
  65. vice
    a specific form of evildoing
  66. lowlife
    a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
  67. fob
    short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest
  68. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  69. shenanigan
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  70. wile
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  71. rogue
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  72. shenanigan
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  73. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Created on Wed Nov 06 09:47:29 EST 2013 (updated Wed Jul 02 18:04:47 EDT 2014)

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