Synonyms of the word

strawman

• n. Alternative spelling of straw man.
• v. Alternative spelling of straw man.

beguiler

• n. A person who beguiles.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

cheater

• n. One who cheats.
• n. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws,…

deceiver

• n. A person who lies or deceives.
• n. (usually preceded by "the") Another name for Satan.

effigy

• n. A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
• n. A likeness of a person.

figurehead

• n. (nautical) A carved figure on the prow of a sailing ship.
• n. (by extension) Someone in a nominal position of leadership who has no actual power; a front or front man.

front

• n. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
• n. The side of a building with the main entrance.
• n. A field of activity.
• n. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
• n. (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting…
• n. (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
• n. (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity…
• n. (military) The direction of the enemy.
• n. (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command…
• n. (obsolete) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
• n. (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
• n. (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
• n. The most conspicuous part.
• n. (obsolete) The beginning.
• n. (Britain) a seafront or coastal promenade.
• n. (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
• n. (slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word…
• adj. Located at or near the front.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
• v. (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
• v. (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
• v. (transitive) To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
• v. (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
• v. (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
• v. (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
• v. (intransitive) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
• v. (transitive) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
• v. To appear before, as in to front court.

image

• n. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
• n. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
• n. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image,…
• n. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to…
• n. (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
• n. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
• n. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
• v. (transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
• v. (transitive) To create an image of.
• v. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

scarecrow

• n. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds…
• n. (figuratively, pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
• n. A person clad in rags and tatters.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A bird, the black tern.
• v. (transitive) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.

scarer

• n. One who, or that which, scares.

simulacrum

• n. An image or representation.
• n. A faint trace or semblance.

slicker

• adj. comparative form of slick: more slick.
• n. One who or that which slicks.
• n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
• n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.).
• n. (slang) A swindler or conman.
• n. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
• n. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• n. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
• v. To slither, as on a slick surface.
• v. To con or hoodwink.
• v. To use a slicker on.
• v. To smooth or slick.
• v. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

trickster

• n. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions,…
• n. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
• n. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
• n. An impish or playful person.
• n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).