DECEPTION

Dodgy, sketchy, double-tongued, shrewd, slick, cockamamie, double-dealing, cunning

Manipulate, bilk, delude, deceive, concoct, finagle, feign, shafted, rigged, mislead, dupe, flatter, hoodoo, hoodwink, snow, hustle, gaslight, gyp, skimming, snooker, pull a fast one, flimflam, stinting, beguile, swindle, fleece, shortchange, coax

Hollow sham, ploy, facade, faux, bait and switch, pretense, fake, fabrication, duplicity, distract, knavery, puffery, deceit, gimmick, bunk, charlatan, setup, spell, spiel, plot, treachery, dissimulation, malarkey, shenanigans, misinformation, disinformation, pitch, trick, ruse, scheme, falsehood, rigmarole, bunkum, nonsense, folly, fraud, sleight, duplicity, hoax, scam, tomfoolery, racket, trumpery, pretense, what's the catch, cock and bull story, hidden fees, rip-off, guile, poppy cock, dupery, vanities and lies, wiles, craftiness, trickery, monkey business, 

Evade, dodge, prevaricate, obfuscate, deflect, equivocate, fudge, circumvent, Brush off, Beat around the bush, give the run-around, wiggle out of the issue; duck/sidestep/skirt the issue

Phony, cozener, deceiver, chiseler, defrauder, fraudster, pretender, hypocrite, huckster, snake oil salesman, dissembler, scammer, shark, counterfeit, phoney, quack, ingrate, flim flammer, windbag, diddler, dodger double-crosser, two-faced, jackleg, makeshift, windjammer, slickster, impostor, con, con artist, con man, shyster, grifter, crook, swindler, trickster, victimizer, moocher, faker, finagler, conniver, wangler, farce, cheat, wheeler-dealer