" cozenage "

1: the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery;

  * e.g., " ... through cozenage and flattery, the art dealer coaxed the unwary into selling their family treasures for a song "

•  Synonyms : 

•  artifice,

•  cheating,

•  craft,

•  craftiness,

•  crookedness,

•  crookery,

•  cunning,

•  cunningness,

•  deceit,

•  deceitfulness,

•  deception,

•  deceptiveness,

•  dishonesty,

•  dissembling,

•  dissimulation,

•  double-dealing,

•  dupery,

•  duplicity,

•  fakery,

•  foxiness,

•  fraud,

•  guile,

•  guilefulness,

•  wiliness

•  Antonyms : 

•  artlessness,

•  forthrightness,

•  good faith,

•  guilelessness,

•  ingenuousness,

•  sincerity