McCarthyism, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, calculated deception, circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, harassment, harrying, hoodwinking, hounding, illusion, kidding, mirage, oppression, outwitting, overreaching, persecution, phantasm, putting on, red-baiting, self-deception, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, tormenting, trickiness, tricking, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking, witch-hunt, witch-hunting