engaño — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deceit noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
- deception noun An action or scheme designed to make someone believe something untrue.
- delusion noun A firmly held false belief, maintained even against clear evidence.
- grift noun A scheme for swindling people out of money, usually through trickery rather than force.
- guile noun Clever, often sly or dishonest, cunning used to deceive or manipulate.
- hoax noun Something made up on purpose to trick or deceive people.
- sham adjective Fake or intended to deceive; not genuine.
- spoof noun A humorous imitation that pokes fun at something, especially a film, show, or genre.
Senses
engaño is used for these senses in English:
- deceit An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- deceit (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- deception An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
- delusion The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
- grift (transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game. [from early 20th c.]
- guile Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- hoax Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
- sham Trickery, hoaxing.
deceit — full definition
- noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
- noun In law, a false statement made knowingly or recklessly to trick someone into relying on it, causing them harm.