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somethingdarkerNot all of these are illegal, some are (arguably) not even unethical, so I'm not putting this with the law adjacent posts. Many of the things here, however, could easily go in the Law - Crimes and Violence post.
Most financial deceptions/crimes that have too few fragments for their own post can be found here: Potential Titles: Money - Dubiously Legal [category]. I'm not going to duplicate them because I'll loose track of what's where. Once those words have their own posts, I'll put them in both places.
Alibi.
Aspersion:
Bear a name assailed by foul aspersions - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Beguile.
Betray.
Bluff:
Resorts at time to bluff and temper - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Bluff a flock of dragons with a safety pin - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Calumny.
Cheat.
Charlatan:
Can check the Charlatan's audacious aim - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Clandestine:
Each hypocrite knows well the clandestine smell of decay - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Words of your clandestine soul - Edgar Lee Masters "Editor Whedon"
The clandestine falcon of death - Pablo Neruda "Alvarado" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Why send minions on clandestine capers - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
Complicit.
Con:
Who rattles off a rag-time con - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Connive:
The conniving Caesars of cotton - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Deeming such base connivance unworthy - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The names of his conniving stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Conspire.
Corrupt.
Covert.
Crafty.
Cunning.
Deceit.
Deceive.
Deception.
Decoy:
To wilds of woe decoy - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Frail decoy to merit myriad-hued - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"
Devious.
Disguise.
Double-Cross:
Circle and loop and double-cross - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Dupe:
Dupes an attacking rhino - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Duplicity:
The infinite duplicity of a suffocating blanket - Mary Jo Bang "Tomb in Three Parts"
The duplicity of a continued numbers game - Paul Cameron Brown "The Rake's Progress"
Another duplicity to help double the world - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
Fake.
Falsehood.
Feign.
Fib:
Small fibs brought home to nest - M. Bartley Seigel "Afterword"
Fraud.
Furtive.
Guile.
Guise.
Imitate.
Impersonate:
To impersonate iguanas in ruins - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
Imply.
Imposter:
Shines through imposture's solemn shade - Mark Akenside "Book II. Ode VII. To the Right Reverend Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Winchester. 1754"
Atone for each imposter's wild mistakes - George Crabbe "The Library"
Fulfilling the fate such imposters should meet - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
And treat those two imposters just the same - Rudyard Kipling "If--"
Incognito:
Agents and actors incognito - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"
Indoctrinate:
Indoctrinated words of oppression - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Infiltrate:
Infiltrating my dreams - Ralph Fletcher "Writer's Block"
Air settles on their shoulders, infiltrates their hair - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Insinuate.
Inveigle:
You may inveigle the phoenix - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
Lie/Lying.
Manipulate:
Nestled into the structures of manipulation - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
Gambit in a cycle of manipulation - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Mendacity:
Mendacity a kind of daily ritual - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Mislead/Misled.
Obfuscate:
By the ocean's obfuscating grave - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"
Outwit:
Water will outwit a wall - Linda Gregerson "Waterborne"
Outwitting the fairies, befriending the furies - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"
Though the cunning gods outwit us - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
Perfidy.
Perjure.
Politics.
Prank.
Pseudonym:
Invent a pseudonym to review it - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
Scoundrel.
Semblance.
Sham:
Still the glorious sham abetting - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
When there's no Devil's Dust in the Cotton Lord's shams - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Without pretense or sham - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
The white bare bones of our shams - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"
Simulate.
Sly.
Sneak.
Spurious:
Spread their spurious treasures to the sun - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Spell-bound vagabond of spurious birth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Judged a spurious gold - Gerald Bullett "The Grudge"
Like a great spurious diamond - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Spy.
Stealth.
Strategem.
Subterfuge:
That subterfuge is part of poetry - Julia Alvarez "Undercover Poet"
Subversive:
Subversive at sunrise - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
An unruly and subversive passion - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"
What dire subversion or your sway divine - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Subvert the prosperous fortunes of their foes - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Surreptitious:
Lapse into surreptitious mist - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
cradling its surreptitious wings - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Treachery.
Trick.
Trickster.
Wiles.
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Most financial deceptions/crimes that have too few fragments for their own post can be found here: Potential Titles: Money - Dubiously Legal [category]. I'm not going to duplicate them because I'll loose track of what's where. Once those words have their own posts, I'll put them in both places.
Alibi.
Aspersion:
Bear a name assailed by foul aspersions - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Beguile.
Betray.
Bluff:
Resorts at time to bluff and temper - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Bluff a flock of dragons with a safety pin - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Calumny.
Cheat.
Charlatan:
Can check the Charlatan's audacious aim - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Clandestine:
Each hypocrite knows well the clandestine smell of decay - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Words of your clandestine soul - Edgar Lee Masters "Editor Whedon"
The clandestine falcon of death - Pablo Neruda "Alvarado" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Why send minions on clandestine capers - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
Complicit.
Con:
Who rattles off a rag-time con - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Connive:
The conniving Caesars of cotton - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Deeming such base connivance unworthy - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The names of his conniving stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Conspire.
Corrupt.
Covert.
Crafty.
Cunning.
Deceit.
Deceive.
Deception.
Decoy:
To wilds of woe decoy - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Frail decoy to merit myriad-hued - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"
Devious.
Disguise.
Double-Cross:
Circle and loop and double-cross - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Dupe:
Dupes an attacking rhino - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Duplicity:
The infinite duplicity of a suffocating blanket - Mary Jo Bang "Tomb in Three Parts"
The duplicity of a continued numbers game - Paul Cameron Brown "The Rake's Progress"
Another duplicity to help double the world - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
Fake.
Falsehood.
Feign.
Fib:
Small fibs brought home to nest - M. Bartley Seigel "Afterword"
Fraud.
Furtive.
Guile.
Guise.
Imitate.
Impersonate:
To impersonate iguanas in ruins - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
Imply.
Imposter:
Shines through imposture's solemn shade - Mark Akenside "Book II. Ode VII. To the Right Reverend Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Winchester. 1754"
Atone for each imposter's wild mistakes - George Crabbe "The Library"
Fulfilling the fate such imposters should meet - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
And treat those two imposters just the same - Rudyard Kipling "If--"
Incognito:
Agents and actors incognito - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"
Indoctrinate:
Indoctrinated words of oppression - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Infiltrate:
Infiltrating my dreams - Ralph Fletcher "Writer's Block"
Air settles on their shoulders, infiltrates their hair - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Insinuate.
Inveigle:
You may inveigle the phoenix - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
Lie/Lying.
Manipulate:
Nestled into the structures of manipulation - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
Gambit in a cycle of manipulation - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Mendacity:
Mendacity a kind of daily ritual - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Mislead/Misled.
Obfuscate:
By the ocean's obfuscating grave - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"
Outwit:
Water will outwit a wall - Linda Gregerson "Waterborne"
Outwitting the fairies, befriending the furies - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"
Though the cunning gods outwit us - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
Perfidy.
Perjure.
Politics.
Prank.
Pseudonym:
Invent a pseudonym to review it - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
Scoundrel.
Semblance.
Sham:
Still the glorious sham abetting - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
When there's no Devil's Dust in the Cotton Lord's shams - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Without pretense or sham - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
The white bare bones of our shams - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"
Simulate.
Sly.
Sneak.
Spurious:
Spread their spurious treasures to the sun - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Spell-bound vagabond of spurious birth - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Judged a spurious gold - Gerald Bullett "The Grudge"
Like a great spurious diamond - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Spy.
Stealth.
Strategem.
Subterfuge:
That subterfuge is part of poetry - Julia Alvarez "Undercover Poet"
Subversive:
Subversive at sunrise - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
An unruly and subversive passion - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"
What dire subversion or your sway divine - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Subvert the prosperous fortunes of their foes - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Surreptitious:
Lapse into surreptitious mist - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
cradling its surreptitious wings - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Treachery.
Trick.
Trickster.
Wiles.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
