artful dodger

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Roget 792: thief, robber, homo triumliterarum [Lat.], pilferer, rifler, filcher^†, plagiarist.    spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark [Slang], land shark, falcon, mosstrooper^†, bushranger^†, Bedouin^†, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit^†; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones^†, buccaneer, buccanier^†; piqueerer^†, pickeerer^†; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee^†, wrecker, picaroon^†; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger [Slang], bunko man, cattle thief, chor^†, contrabandist^†, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up [U.S.], jackleg [U.S.], kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin [Slang], sneak thief, spieler^†, strong-arm man [U.S.].    highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar.    cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook [Slang], Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher [Slang]; defaulter; Autolycus^†, Jeremy Diddler^†, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob [Slang], chevalier d'industrie [Fr.]; shoplifter.    swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.    burglar, housebreaker; cracksman^†, magsman [Slang]; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild.    gang [group of thieves], gang of thieves, theft ring; organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra [It].    [famous thieves], Dillinger, Al Capone; Robin Hood.    ... meer laten zien

Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Philadelphia lawyer, Yankee horse trader, actor, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, charmer, counterfeiter, crafty rascal, deceiver, deluder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, faker, fooler, forger, fox, gay deceiver, glib tongue, hoaxer, horse trader, hypnotizer, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, leg-puller, mesmerizer, misleader, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, practical joker, ragger, reynard, role-player, seducer, shyster, slick citizen, sly dog, slyboots, spoofer, sweet talker, swindler, tease, teaser, trickster ... meer laten zien.

artful dodge

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Roget 702: cunning, craft; cunningness^†, craftiness etc. adj.; subtlety, artificiality; maneuvering etc. v.; temporization; circumvention.    chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery^†; concealment etc. 528; guile, doubling, duplicity etc. (falsehood) 544; foul play.    diplomacy, politics; Machiavelism; jobbery, backstairs influence.    art, artifice; device, machination; plot etc. (plan) 626; maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery etc. (deception) 545; ruse, ruse de guerre [Fr.]; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie etc. (untruth) 546; juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie [Fr.]; net, trap etc. 545.    Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee; intriguer, intrigant^†; floater [U.S.], Indian giver [U.S.], keener [U.S.], repeater [U.S.].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 545: deception; falseness etc. 544; untruth etc. 546; imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence, fraudulency^†; covin^†; knavery etc. (cunning) 702; misrepresentation etc. (falsehood) 544; bluff; straw-bail, straw bid [U.S.]; spoof [Slang].    delusion, gullery^†; juggling, jugglery^†; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation^†, prestidigitation; magic etc. 992; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie^†, jockeyship^†; trickery, coggery^†, chicanery; supercherie^†, cozenage^†, circumvention, ingannation^†, collusion; treachery etc. 940; practical joke.    trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem etc. (artifice) 702; confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft etc. 791; ballot-box stuffing [U.S.], barney [Slang]; brace game [Slang], bunko game, drop game [Slang], gum game [U.S.], panel game [U.S.], shell game, thimblerig, skin game [U.S.].    snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe^†, springle^†; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea^†, Venus's flytrap^†; ambush etc. 530; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap^†; green goods [U.S.]; panel house.    Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing etc. (deceiver) 548; disguise, disguisement^†; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de velours [Fr.].    mockery etc. (imitation) 19; copy etc. 21; counterfeit, sham, make-believe, forgery, fraud; lie etc. 546; a delusion a mockery and a snare" [Denman], hollow mockery.    whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola^†, ormolu, German silver, albata^†, paktong^†, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw.    illusion etc. (error) 495; ignis fatuus [Lat.] etc. 423; mirage etc. 443.    ... meer laten zien

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