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nm. thyme, aromatic plant of the mint family (Botany); thymus, gland in the neck that is involved in the production of immune system cells (Medicine)

nm. swindle, racket; sting

v. cheat, swindle; gull; chisel

n. thyme, aromatic plant of the mint family

(n.) = confidence trick ; swindle ; rip-off ; swindling ; cheating ; hocus pocus ; con trick ; con ; con job ; scam ; diddle.
Ex: Unless universal education is nothing more than a confidence trick, there must be more people today who can benefit by real library service than ever there were in the past.
Ex: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.
Ex: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.
Ex: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
Ex: The author discerns 3 levels of cheating and deceit and examines why scientists stoop to bias and fraud, particularly in trials for new treatments.
Ex: The final section of her paper calls attention to the 'hocus pocus' research conducted on many campuses.
Ex: The social contract has been the con trick by which the bosses have squeezed more and more out of the workers for themselves.
Ex: He has long argued that populist conservatism is nothing more than a con.
Ex: The global warming hoax had all the classic marks of a con job from the very beginning.
Ex: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.
Ex: Some of the case studies were actually quite disturbing - charities raising money then sending it to Switzerland with no record of what it was spent on, for example, and other such diddles.

(v.) = cheat (on) ; trick ; dupe ; rip off ; take in ; swindle ; shortchange ; hoodwink ; be had ; humbug ; con ; hoax ; scam ; diddle ; flim-flam ; take + Nombre + for a ride.
Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
Ex: People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
Ex: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
Ex: 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
Ex: In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
Ex: By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.
Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
Ex: Insurance rates are off the chart due to people scamming insurance companies.
Ex: It should be remembered that the last time they were here, they were diddled -- Could it be a case of 'once bitten twice shy'?.
Ex: You are being flim-flammed by just another industry shill.
Ex: That is when the King realized he had been taken for a ride and it took an innocent child to point out his situation.