7
casuistry(noun, cover, line, deception, mistake)
7
delusion(noun, cover, line, trick, deception)
5
deception(noun, cover, line, cheat, lie)
5
fallacy(noun, cover, line, deception, lie)
5
falsity(noun, deception, dishonesty, falseness, inaccuracy)
5
speciousness(noun, cover, line, deception, lie)
4
deceit(noun, cover, line, cheat, deception)
4
dishonesty(noun, cheat, deception, deceit, falsehood)
4
falseness(noun, falsity, inaccuracy, wrongness, erroneousness)
3
deceitfulness(noun, fraud, deceit, lying, falsehood)
3
dissimulation(noun, cover, line, cheat, ripoff)
3
duplicity(noun, cover, line, deception, dishonesty)
3
equivocation(noun, cover, deception, mistake, dishonesty)
3
falsehood(noun, deception, mistake, dishonesty, error)
3
fraudulence(noun, cheat, deception, fraud, deceit)
3
obliquity
3
sophism(noun, deception, mistake, dishonesty, error)
2
circumvention(noun, fraud, deceit, lying, falsehood)
2
crookedness(noun, falsehood)
2
figment(noun, deception, vision, fantasy, falsehood)
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