deceiver vs figurehead

figurehead vs deceiver

deceiver and figurehead both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deceiver	Yes	No	No	No
figurehead	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, figurehead is a hyponym of deceiver; that is, figurehead is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deceiver:

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
figurehead: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

Other hyponyms of deceiver include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

deceiver (noun)	figurehead (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
	a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

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