" mountebankery "

1: as in subterfuge, chicanery;

•  Synonyms : 

•  chicane,

•  chicanery,

•  fraudulence,

•  hanky-panky,

•  jugglery,

•  legerdemain,

•  obliquity,

•  skulduggery,

•  subterfuge,

•  swindling,

•  trickery,

•  wile,

•  equivocation,

•  lying,

•  mendacity,

•  prevarication,

•  falsehood,

•  falsity,

•  fib,

•  untruth,

•  artifice,

•  cheating,

•  cozenage,

•  craft,

•  craftiness,

•  crookedness,

•  crookery,

•  cunning,

•  cunningness,

•  deceit,

•  deceitfulness,

•  deception,

•  deceptiveness,

•  dishonesty,

•  dissembling,

•  dissimulation,

•  double-dealing,

•  dupery,

•  duplicity,

•  fakery,

•  foxiness,

•  fraud,

•  guile,

•  guilefulness,

•  wiliness,

•  hypocrisy,

•  insincerity,

•  sanctimoniousness,

•  two-facedness,

•  artfulness,

•  caginess,

•  deviousness,

•  shrewdness,

•  treacherousness,

•  underhandedness,

•  unscrupulousness,

•  covertness,

•  furtiveness,

•  secrecy,

•  shadiness,

•  sneakiness,

•  stealthiness,

•  oiliness,

•  shiftiness,

•  slickness,

•  slipperiness,

•  slyness,

•  smoothness

•  Antonyms : 

•  artlessness,

•  forthrightness,

•  good faith,

•  guilelessness,

•  ingenuousness,

•  sincerity,

•  candidness,

•  candor,

•  directness,

•  frankness,

•  openness,

•  plainness,

•  plainspokenness,

•  honesty,

•  probity,

•  dependability,

•  reliability,

•  reliableness,

•  solidity,

•  trustability,

•  trustiness,

•  trustworthiness,

•  decency,

•  goodness,

•  incorruptibility,

•  integrity,

•  righteousness,

•  truthfulness,

•  uprightness,

•  virtuousness

1: one who makes false claims of identity or expertise;

  * e.g., " ... claimed that many doctors were frauds and mountebanks "

•  Synonyms : 

•  charlatan,

•  fake,

•  faker,

•  fakir,

•  fraud,

•  hoaxer,

•  humbug,

•  impostor,

•  phony,

•  pretender,

•  quack,

•  quacksalver,

•  ringer,

•  sham

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)