deceiver vs peculator

peculator vs deceiver

deceiver and peculator both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
peculator: someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

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, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, 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)	peculator (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

Difference between deceiver and peculator

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