deceiver vs strawman

strawman vs deceiver

deceiver and strawman both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
strawman: 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, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, 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)	strawman (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
	a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
	a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

Difference between deceiver and strawman

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