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to cheat / to swindle / to pretend / to feign / to draw sb out / to try to extract information by deceit or bluff

at first / suddenly / abruptly / to spread / (of hair) to stand on end / bristling

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

to defraud / to swindle / to blackmail

to rip off / to extort (money) / extortion / blackmail

to cheat

crafty / cunning / deceitful

extortion and blackmail (idiom)

treachery / devious / a rogue

fraud

to extort under false pretenses / to blackmail / to bluff / to defraud

to feign death / to fake death

fraud / deception

sly / treacherous

to swindle / to defraud

lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom) / fig. each tries to outwit the other / deceit and treachery

to bluff / to bluster / to intimidate

feigned surrender

sinister and deceitful

there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war

to feign illness / to malinger

falsehood / lies / fabrication

to defraud / to obtain by fraud / to embezzle / fraudulent