Potential Titles: Deceit and Trickery [category]

Not 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.

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"

Cheat.

Clandestine:
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"

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:
Who at the table feigns with sorry jest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"

The grief that is but feigning - Henry van Dyke "The Valley of Vain Verses"

Here shine the valiant Nunio's deeds unfeign'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Fraud.

Furtive.

Guile.

Guise.

Imitate.

Impersonate:
To impersonate iguanas in ruins - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

Imposter:
Atone for each imposter's wild mistakes - George Crabbe "The Library"

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:
Insinuations of desire - Wallace Stevens "The Ordinary Women"

The winsome insinuations of bindweed - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

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"

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:
The true sons of perfidy - Tommaso Campanella "XXXV. Sophists" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Made bold by fraud and perfidy - Tommaso Campanella "XLII. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.3. The Golden Age" transl. by John Addington Symonds

While Perfidy sharpened the dart - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Cain the gardener of perfidy - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Naming Ceremony"

Politics.

Prank.

Pseudonym:
Invent a pseudonym to review it - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Scoundrel:
Sneak with the scoundrel fox - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

To save a scoundrel from the rope - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

Till every scoundrel's stock of oaths was sold - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Semblance.

Sham:
Still the glorious sham abetting - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"

Without pretense or sham - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"

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.

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"

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:
Charm him with winning wiles - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"

Rich in rhetoric's winning wiles - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

The southern wind's seductive wiles - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]

By fantastic wiles persuade the passions - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]


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Potential Titles: Directional and Relative Position Words [category]

Abutt:
Cliffs abutting in shadow a drear grey sea - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

Altitude.

Bottom.

Circling.

Clockwise:
clockwise back to a better self - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

Compass.

Coordinate:
Carefully calculate coordinates - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"

Maps desire's coordinates - Shara McCallum "Fury"

Precision in every coordinate - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Every coordinate a golden fiber - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"

Counterclockwise:
Otherwise and likewise and counterclockwise - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Counterclockwise wind in their mouths - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Direction.

Downhill:
Rolling a fog of ash downhill to sea - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

East.

Equator:
In the soul's own hot equators - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Face to Face.

Halfway.

Horizontal.

Latitude.

Lee.

Left.

Longitude:
the longitude is a contested border - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

The long needles of latitude and longitude - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Meridian:
On bare stone with open meridians - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Veils in clouds the sun's meridian beam - George Crabbe "The Library"

Northwest:
Retires on the breast of the northwest horizon - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

North.

Oblique.

Orientation:
Inclined to landscape orientation - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

Periphery.

Precede.

Previous.

Right.

Side.

Side by Side.

South.

South-West:
Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"

Top.

West.



Mostly Prepositions:
Above.

Across.

Ahead.

Along.

Amid.

Among.

Angle.

Apart.

Around.

Aside.

Back (all).

Backward.

Before.

Behind.

Below.

Beneath.

Beside/Besides.

Between.

Betwixt/'Twixt.

Beyond.

Diagonal:
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

Down.

Downward.

Forward.

Front.

Inner.

Inside.

Inside Out.

Invert.

Inward.

Middle.

Opposite.

Out.

Outer.

Outside.

Outward.

Overhead.

Sideways:
Fell sideways instead of down - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

With faces turn'd sideways - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

Through.

Under.

Underneath.

Up.

Upside Down.

Upward.

Yon:
Memories far high reaching as yon palled star - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"

From eve and morning and yon twelve-winded sky - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXII"

Through the lattice high in yon dead wall - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Yon severing tide is not fordless or wide - "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Yonder.


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