Cozener
41biter — n. 1. Render, seizer, tearer, taker. 2. Cheat, cheater, misleader, beguiler, cozener, trickster, jockey, knave …
42palmer — n. 1. Pilgrim (returned from the Holy Land), crusader. 2. Cozener, cheat, trickster (at cards or dice) …
43shifter — n. Trickster, cozener …
44cheat — n fraud, fake, deceit, deception, *imposture, counterfeit, sham, humbug Analogous words: hoaxing or hoax, bamboozling or bamboozlement (see corresponding verbs at DUPE): *deception, trickery, chicanery, chicane: charlatan, quack, mountebank,… …
45faker — impostor, mountebank, charlatan, quack Analogous words: defrauder, cheater or cheat, swindler, cozener (see corresponding verbs at CHEAT) …
46charlatan — n quack, quacksalver, Archaic. empiric, pretender, imposter, humbug, mountebank; fraud, fake, Inf. faker, hypocrite, pharisee, Inf. fourflusher; cheat, deceiver, swindler, confidence man, Inf. con man; trickster, U.S. chiseler, hoaxer, defrauder …
47deceiver — n cheat, cheater, duper, fraud, deluder, cozener, outwitter; hypocrite, dissimulator, tartuffe, Pecksniff, Inf. used car salesman, tricky dick; bam boozler, hoodwinker, swindler, sharper, defrauder. bilker, fleecer, Uriah Heep; knave, scoundrel,… …
48mountebank — n charlatan, quack, quack doctor, quacksalver, Archaic. empiric; pretender, imposter, impersonator, Sl. ringer; sham, shammer, bluff, bluffer, Inf. phony; huckster, pitchman, snake oil man, medicine man, fast talker, Sl. spieler, Sl. hot air… …
49prevaricator — n 1. liar, fibber, storyteller, taleteller, falsifier, fabricator; dodger, equivocator, shuffler, evader, bluffer, bluff, fake, hypocrite; dissembler, sophist, casuist, quibbler, canter; deceiver, beguiler. seducer. 2. humbug, cheat, cozener,… …
50quack — v cackle, gaggle, clack, honk. n 1. pretender, impostor, masquerader, fake, Inf. faker, humbug; mountebank, charlatan, Inf. phony; hoaxer, cozener, trickster, cheat, swindler, Inf. shyster, sharper; slicker, spieler, knave, rogue, Inf. con man,… …
