Deceiver

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deceiver \De*ceiv"er\, n.
     One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an
     impostor.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The deceived and the deceiver are his.   --Job xii. 16.


  
     Syn: {Deceiver}, {Impostor}.
  
     Usage: A deceiver operates by stealth and in private upon
            individuals; an impostor practices his arts on the
            community at large. The one succeeds by artful
            falsehoods, the other by bold assumption. The
            faithless friend and the fickle lover are deceivers;
            the false prophet and the pretended prince are
            impostors.
            [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deceiver
       n : someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
           [syn: {cheat}, {cheater}, {trickster}, {beguiler}, {slicker}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "deceiver":
     Judas, actor, affecter, bad person, betrayer, convict, criminal,
     crook, debaucher, defiler, delinquent, desperado,
     desperate criminal, despoiler, double-dealer, evildoer, fake,
     felon, fraud, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird,
     hollow man, jailbird, lawbreaker, malefactor, malevolent,
     malfeasant, malfeasor, man of straw, mannerist, misfeasor, mobster,
     outlaw, paper tiger, performer, phony, playactor, pretender,
     public enemy, quisling, racketeer, raper, rapist, ravager,
     ravisher, scofflaw, scoundrel, seducer, sinner, straw man,
     swindler, thief, thug, traitor, transgressor, two-timer, villain,
     violator, worker of ill, wrongdoer