deceiver vs shammer

shammer vs deceiver

deceiver and shammer both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
shammer: a person who makes deceitful pretenses

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, 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, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

deceiver (noun)	shammer (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who makes deceitful pretenses
	someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

Difference between deceiver and shammer

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