ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

548. Deceiver -- N. deceiver &c (deceive) &c 545; dissembler, hypocrite; sophist,
Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm † , Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe † , Janus; serpent, snake in
the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler † , stool pigeon.
liar &c (lie) &c 544; story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage [Fr.],
Scapin † ; bunko steerer [U.S.], carpetbagger [U.S.], capper [U.S.], faker, fraud, four
flusher [Slang], horse coper † , ringer [Slang], spieler † , straw bidder [U.S.].
imposter, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.], humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez
Pinto; ass in lion's skin &c (bungler) 701; actor &c (stage player) 599.
quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco † , saltimbanque † , empiric, quacksalver,
medicaster † , Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.
conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy, decoy duck; rogue,
knave, cheat; swindler &c (thief) 792; jobber.
Phr. saint abroad and a devil at home [Bunyan].
549. Exaggeration -- N. exaggeration; expansion &c 194; hyperbole, stretch, strain,
coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura † ; extravagance &c (nonsense) 497; Baron
Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story,
gooseberry [Slang].
storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing &c (overestimation) 482; puff, puffery &c
(boasting) 884; rant &c (turgescence) 577 [Obs.].
figure of speech, facon de parler [Fr.]; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination;
flight of fancy &c (imagination) 515.
false coloring &c (falsehood) 544; aggravation &c 835.
V. exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify &c (expand) 194; overestimate &c
482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark,
overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a
point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow;
deal in the marvelous.
out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.
heighten, overcolor † ; color highly, color too highly; broder † ; flourish; color &c
(misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884.
Adj. exaggerated &c v.; overwrought; bombastic &c (grandiloquent) 577; hyperbolical † ,
on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre [Fr.], highflying † .
Adv. hyperbolically &c adj..
Phr. excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Lat.] [Cicero].
SECTION III.
MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS
1. NATURAL MEANS
550. Indication -- N. indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology, semiotics,
semeiology † , semeiotics † ; Zeitgeist.
[means of recognition: property] characteristic, diagnostic; lineament, feature, trait;
fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint [for animals]; cloven hoof; footfall;
recognition (memory) 505.