Engaño in english
Scam
pronunciation: skæm part of speech: noun
pronunciation: skæm part of speech: noun
In gestures
engañar = fool ; hoodwink ; deceive ; cheat (on) ; delude ; trick ; dupe ; perpetrate + deception ; practise + a deception ; rip + Nombre + off ; take in ; swindle ; fiddle ; bamboozle ; shortchange ; bluff ; cheat + Posesivo + way through ; be had ; humbug ; lead + Nombre + down the garden path ; con ; hoax ; bullshit ; lead + Nombre + on ; lead + Nombre + on ; diddle ; flim-flam ; inveigle ; take + Nombre + for a ride ; lead + Nombre + up the garden path ; kid ; stitch + Nombre + up ; pull + a fast one (on + Nombre) .
Example: We may be fooling ourserlves and I would caution public libraries, school libraries and libraries in general that indeed one code might not satisfy all our needs.Example: In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.Example: Mostly facsimiles are made without dishonest intent, although some have certainly been intended to deceive, and the ease with which they can be identified varies with the reproduction process used.Example: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.Example: Nonetheless, it is claimed that his 1987 graduate and undergraduate editions continue to delude students seeking information about schools to attend, including schools of library science.Example: People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.Example: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.Example: The public should at least be told that they will end up paying dearly for the deception being perpetrated upon them.Example: Librarians have been practising a deception, and must wake up to three dangers.Example: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.Example: 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said.Example: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.Example: Thus, the wrong impression was gained, for instance, when the olive oil subsidies were being 'fiddled' in Italy.Example: Benny Morris claims that Karsh is attempting to hoodwink and bamboozle readers.Example: 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.Example: They are bluffed easily, and it is quite possible they will be bluffed again.Example: One of the major dichotomies between students and teachers is the recognition by students that the technologies can give them an edge, that is they can cheat their way through school.Example: By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.Example: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.Example: Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.Example: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.Example: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.Example: Being able to bullshit effectively requires at least a modicum of knowledge about the subject at hand.Example: It's not fair to lead her on, it will just make things worse!.Example: It's not fair to lead her on, it will just make things worse!.Example: It should be remembered that the last time they were here, they were diddled -- Could it be a case of 'once bitten twice shy'?.Example: You are being flim-flammed by just another industry shill.Example: A woman who twice stole from an elderly woman after inveigling her way into her home was today given a jail sentence.Example: That is when the King realized he had been taken for a ride and it took an innocent child to point out his situation.Example: Very often, he simply followed his nose to see where it led; sometimes leading him up the garden path, and sometimes bringing really useful results.Example: Who on this earth does she think she is kidding?.Example: It seems to me as if the person who had overall responsibility for paying bills has stitched her up.Example: This is the problem -- she has a history of appearing to 'pull a fast one on' the American people.more:
» dejarse engañar = fall for ; get + sucked in .
Example: Librarians make the mistake of seeing community information as being just another type of information, and they fall for some very basic fallacies. Example: The problem with books like this is that people get sucked in and start believing in impossibilities.» engañar a la muerte = cheat + death .
Example: For someone that comes close to death some say they have 'cheated death'.» engañar al sistema = beat + the system [Intentar superar las trabas impuestas por cualquier organismo considerado como un agente explotador para demostrar que el individuo puede más que la institución] ; game + the system ; work + the system ; play + the system ; abuse + the system .
Example: The passwords used should be chosen with some care, in order to avoid obvious words or numbers which could easily be deduced by those with a desire to 'beat the system'. Example: Doctors often 'game the system' by manipulating the organ allocation system to favor patients of their choosing. Example: At the centre of the row over the 'bonus culture' is the view that certain people are getting money for old rope -- that they're working the system and not providing good value for money. Example: But by and large, medical students are sensible level-headed types who would never try to play the system when this much is at stake. Example: Not everyone using food stamps abuses the system.» engañar con falsas esperanzas = string + Nombre + along .
Example: If you don't have feelings for him any more it's not good to keep stringing him along.» engañar con otro = two-time .
Example: He said he wanted to kill her because she had two-timed him and he loved her.» engañar el hambre = keep + the wolves from the door .
Example: Some can afford this as they are semi-retired or have other sources of income to keep the wolves from the door.» engañar el sistema = fool + the system .
Example: The very inflexibility of automated assessment methods can lead to students becoming adept at fooling the system in some way.» engañarse a Uno mismo = fool + Reflexivo .
Example: British Prime Minister Tony Blair is fooling himself if he thinks weapons of mass destruction will still be found in Iraq.» las apariencias engañan = don't judge a book by its cover ; there is/was more to it than meets/met the eye ; be not all what it seems to be ; be not as it seems to be ; there is/was more to the picture than meets/met the eye ; appearances are deceiving ; All that glitters is not gold ; still waters run deep ; tears of a clown .
Example: The old saying 'Don't judge a book by its cover' is very appropriate in our lives today -- it is very important not to judge a person because of what you assume they are like. Example: So don't be too hasty to write it off -- there's more to it than meets the eye. Example: Knightley has warned children who dream of celebrity life that it's not all what it seems to be. Example: Though at first it seems that this project is charming and has strong appeal for poor countries and its poor children, it is not as it seems to be. Example: Despite this common sense observation, most economists have failed to see that 'there's more to the picture than meets the eye', as Neil Young once sang. Example: Innumerable examples confirm that appearances are deceiving; also our preconceived ideas stand in our way. Example: The article 'All that glitters may not be gold' argues that media literacy must become an integrated part of school curricula. Example: They may appear cold but 'still waters run deep' -- they have much sympathy and understanding for intimate friends. Example: When I told her about Robin Williams's death, a famous stand-up comedian who suffered from depression, she was upset like everyone else and the first thing she said was "Tears of a clown".» si mi olfato no me engaña = if my hunch is right ; if I am not mistaken .
Example: I have a good idea of what's going to happen but I still have to see if my hunch is right. Example: If I am not mistaken, a guy who has 4 women, all bringing in lots of money for him, is called a PIMP.engaño = fraud ; snare ; sham ; hoax ; deceit ; subterfuge ; confidence trick ; deception ; swindle ; rip-off ; swindling ; cheating ; hocus pocus ; caper ; dissimulation ; fiddle ; trickery ; bluff ; con trick ; con ; con job ; diddle ; deceitfulness ; act of deception ; guile ; wangle ; masquerade ; wile ; grift.
Example: At our library in Minnesota we have clearly identified material that deals with many types of business and consumer frauds, national liberation movements, bedtime, Kwanza, the Afro-American holiday.Example: Whilst telematics for Africa is full of snares, it is the way towards the road to mastery in the future.Example: The NCC argue that the three other rights established over the last three centuries -- civil, political and social -- are 'liable to be hollow shams' without the consequent right to information.Example: This article examines several controversial cataloguing problems, including the classification of anti-Semitic works and books proven to be forgeries or hoaxes.Example: The article has the title 'Policing fraud and deceit: the legal aspects of misconduct in scientific enquiry'.Example: Citing authors' names in references can cause great difficulties, as ghosts, subterfuges, and collaborative teamwork may often obscure the true begetters of published works.Example: 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.Example: Furthermore, deception is common when subjects use e-mail and chat rooms.Example: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.Example: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.Example: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.Example: The author discerns 3 levels of cheating and deceit and examines why scientists stoop to bias and fraud, particularly in trials for new treatments.Example: The final section of her paper calls attention to the 'hocus pocus' research conducted on many campuses.Example: Who was the mastermind of the Watergate caper & for what purpose has never been revealed.Example: In fact, the terms of the contrast are highly ambivalent: order vs. anarchy, liberty vs. despotism, or industry vs. sloth, and also dissimulation vs. honesty.Example: This paper reports a study based on an eight-week period of participant observation of a particular form of resistance, fiddles.Example: It is sometimes thought that a woman's trickery compensates for her physical weakness.Example: The most dramatic way to spot a bluff is to look your opponent in the eye and attempt to sense his fear.Example: The social contract has been the con trick by which the bosses have squeezed more and more out of the workers for themselves.Example: He has long argued that populist conservatism is nothing more than a con.Example: The global warming hoax had all the classic marks of a con job from the very beginning.Example: 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.Example: Deceitfulness is sometimes remains ignored because a significant majority of people indulge in it.Example: An act of deception intended for personal gain or to cause a loss to another party is called fraud.Example: They loved his genuineness and utter lack of guile.Example: You wonder what type of chemicals their mind must be made of to resort to such a wangle.Example: Such a masquerade may allow some microbes to enter the host's inner sanctum covertly in a manner analogous to the Trojan horse.Example: Cleopatra would use her wiles and wits to become the sole ruler of Egypt and the lover of the two most powerful men of Rome: Caesar and Marc Antony.Example: Earlier racketeers dreamed of such a grift, but they quickly realized they could never get away with it.more:
» autoengaño = self-deception .
Example: Hypocrisy typically involves or leads to self-deception and, therefore, real hypocrites are hard to find.» conducir a engaño = be misleading ; be deceiving .
Example: At its very worst writing for a market can be pure 'hack' writing for money only, but in the world of books such an over-simplification can be misleading. Example: The intuitive simplicity of probability can be deceiving.» con engaño = deceitfully .
Example: A person's lack of humility may lead him to act deceitfully in order to obtain or maintain a false recognition from others.» conseguir mediante engaño = bluff + Posesivo + way into ; bluff + Posesivo + way through .
Example: I work beside a fair few people who bluffed their way into the job, and it's no fun at all. Example: I told you he was bluffing his way through and now here is some more proof -- he has no idea about anything.» entrar mediante engaño = bluff + Posesivo + way into .
Example: I work beside a fair few people who bluffed their way into the job, and it's no fun at all.» llevar a engaño = be misleading ; be deceiving .
Example: At its very worst writing for a market can be pure 'hack' writing for money only, but in the world of books such an over-simplification can be misleading. Example: The intuitive simplicity of probability can be deceiving.» pasar mediante engaño = bluff + Posesivo + way through .
Example: I told you he was bluffing his way through and now here is some more proof -- he has no idea about anything.» someter a engaño = perpetrate + deception .
Example: The public should at least be told that they will end up paying dearly for the deception being perpetrated upon them.