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gambit

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of gambit

a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end

I couldn't tell whether her earlier poor-mouthing had been sincere or just a gambit to get me to pick up the dinner check

Synonyms of gambit

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile

Words Related to gambit

bluff, end run, feint

cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery

fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle

blind, front, smoke screen

Phrases Synonymous with gambit

sleight of hand

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