Synonyms of suckering

suckering

verb

present participle of sucker

1

as in tricking

to cause to believe what is untrue

a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricking
• deceiving
• fooling
• duping
• conning
• misleading
• teasing
• kidding
• misinforming
• hoodwinking
• gulling
• hoaxing
• deluding
• bamboozling
• misguiding
• snookering
• humbugging
• bluffing
• cozening
• cheating
• juggling
• stinging
• gaffing
• catching
• spoofing
• beguiling
• burning
• sucking in
• having
• stringing along
• taking in
• having on
• snowing
• gammoning
• hornswoggling
• buffaloing
• doing a number on
• faking out
• fleecing
• sticking
• pulling one's leg
• swindling
• leading one up the garden path
• defrauding
• leading one down the garden path
• shortchanging
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• rooking
• hustling
• bleeding
• diddling
• mulcting
• putting on
• chiseling
• squeezing
• chiselling
• skinning
• flimflamming
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• debunking
• unmasking
• telling
• disclosing
• undeceiving
• divulging
• showing up
• disabusing
• unveiling
• disillusioning
• uncloaking
• disenchanting

2

as in plucking

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plucking
• cheating
• squeezing
• hustling
• screwing
• stinging
• sticking
• beating
• deceiving
• doing
• tricking
• fleecing
• conning
• victimizing
• bilking
• bleeding
• swindling
• defrauding
• shortchanging
• stiffing
• exploiting
• shorting
• diddling
• rooking
• reaming
• fiddling
• mulcting
• cozening
• fooling
• chiseling
• gaffing
• chiselling
• betraying
• skinning
• hosing
• shaking down
• ripping off
• extorting
• nobbling
• flimflamming
• clipping
• doing in
• thimblerigging
• gouging
• euchring
• skunking
• duping
• chousing
• taking for a ride
• taking to the cleaners
• wrenching
• nicking
• milking
• overcharging
• selling a bill of goods to
• gulling
• soaking
• wringing
• wresting
• bamboozling
• bitching
• double-crossing
• fast-talking
• roping (in)