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Definition of Deceiver
1. Noun. Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.
Generic synonyms: Offender, Wrongdoer
Specialized synonyms: Bluffer, Four-flusher, Chiseler, Chiseller, Defrauder, Gouger, Grifter, Scammer, Swindler, Decoy, Steerer, Dodger, Fox, Slyboots, Betrayer, Double-crosser, Double-dealer, Traitor, Two-timer, Defalcator, Embezzler, Peculator, Falsifier, Finagler, Wangler, Counterfeiter, Forger, Fortune Hunter, Figurehead, Front, Front Man, Nominal Head, Straw Man, Strawman, Dissembler, Dissimulator, Hypocrite, Phoney, Phony, Pretender, Imitator, Impersonator, Fake, Faker, Fraud, Imposter, Impostor, Pretender, Pseud, Pseudo, Role Player, Sham, Shammer, Liar, Prevaricator, Misleader, Charlatan, Mountebank, Obscurantist, Sandbagger, Two-timer, Utterer
Derivative terms: Beguile, Cheat, Cheat, Cheat, Cheat, Deceive, Trick, Trick
Definition of Deceiver
1. n. One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.
Definition of Deceiver
1. Noun. A person who lies or deceives. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deceiver
1. one that deceives [n -S] - See also: deceives
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deceiver
Literary usage of Deceiver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"The deceiver practises deception on individuals ; the impostor only on the public
at large. The false friend and the faithless lover are deceivers; ..."
2. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"Where deceiver is innocent.—Suppose that a woman with a child marries a man, ...
Where the beneficiary was an intentional deceiver, the presumption is that ..."
3. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"The deceit is regarded as treason and the deceiver as a traitor, which is worse.
Yet not all truths can be spoken : some for our own sake, others for the ..."
4. The Aristocracy of Health: A Study of Physical Culture, Our Favorite Poisons by Mary Foote Henderson (1904)
"All poisons to a greater or less extent are deceivers, but tobacco is the chief
deceiver. Gustafson, in his second book, "The Drink Problem," gives this ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"SAMUEL GORTON, THE SUBTLE deceiver. [From the Same.] NOT long before these
troubles, there arrived at Boston, one Samuel Gorton, who from thence came to ..."
6. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"О Memory, thou fond deceiver, GOLDSMITH : Song. Past joys enhance the present pain.
And sad remembrance is our bane. L Still importunate and vain, ..."
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