THESAURUS
imposition
Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, application, applying, assessment, assumption, atrocity, ballot-box stuffing, blackmail, bunco, burden, burthen, call, call for, cardsharping, cargo, cess, charge, cheat, cheating, claim, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, conscience money, contribution, cozenage, cross, cumbrance, deadweight, demand, demand for, diddle, diddling, difficulty, direct tax, disadvantage, dishonesty, disservice, dodge, draft, drain, dummy, duty, embarrassment, encroachment, encumbrance, enforcement, enforcing, entrance, entrenchment, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, familiarity, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, freight, furniture, galley chase, gerrymandering, graduated taxation, graft, great wrong, grievance, grift, gross injustice, gyp, gyp joint, hamper, handicap, heavy demand, hot-metal typesetting, hubris, illicit business, impediment, impedimenta, impingement, impost, imposture, inconvenience, incursion, indent, indirect tax, infiltration, inflicting, infliction, influx, infringement, injection, injury, injustice, inroad, insinuation, insistent demand, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, introduction, intrusion, invasion, irruption, joint return, justification, lawlessness, laying on, layout, levy, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, line of type, load, lumber, miscarriage of justice, misuse, nonnegotiable demand, notice, obtrusion, onus, order, outrage, pack, penalty, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, placement, placing, presumption, presumptuousness, progressive tax, promulgation, quoin, racket, raw deal, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, scam, separate returns, setting, single tax, slug, supertax, surtax, swindle, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, taxing, tithe, toll, trespass, trespassing, tribute, trouble, typesetting, typesetting machine, ultimatum, undue liberty, unlawful entry, warning, weight, white elephant, withholding tax, wrong
ROGET THESAURUS
imposition
Command
N
command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod, despatch, dispatch, message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions, appointment, fixture, demand, exaction,
imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation, revendication, ultimatum, request, requirement, dictation, dictate, mandate, caveat, decree, senatus consultum, precept, prescript, rescript, writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti- sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation, word, word of command, mot d'ordre, bugle call, trumpet call, beat of drum, tattoo, order of the day, enactment, plebiscite, commanding, authoritative, decretory, decretive, decretal, callable, jussive, in a commanding tone, by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the pen, by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons, the decree is gone forth, sic volo sic jubeo, le Roi le veut, boutez en avant.
Undueness
N
undueness, malum prohibitum, impropriety, illegality, falseness, emptiness of title, invalidity of title, illegitimacy, loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture, usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure, stretch, exaction,
imposition, lion's share, usurper, pretender, undue, unlawful, unconstitutional, illicit, unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified, unentitled, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified, unprivileged, unchartered, illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false, usurped, tortious, undeserved, unmerited, unearned, unfulfilled, forfeited, disfranchised, improper, unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly, unbecoming, misbecoming, seemless, contra bonos mores, not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of, preposterous, pretentious, would-be, filius nullius.
Deception
N
deception, falseness, untruth,
imposition, imposture, fraud, deceit, guile, fraudulence, fraudulency, covin, knavery, misrepresentation, bluff, straw-bail, straw bid, spoof, delusion, gullery, juggling, jugglery, slight of hand, legerdemain, prestigiation, prestidigitation, magic, conjuring, conjuration, hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship, trickery, coggery, chicanery, supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion, treachery, practical joke, trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite, card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck, artful dodge, swindle, tricks upon travelers, stratagem, confidence trick, fake, hoax, theft, ballot-box stuffing, barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game, shell game, thimblerig, skin game, snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin, springe, springle, noose, hoot, bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens, cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime, dionaea, Venus's flytrap, ambush, trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom, spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery, mine, flytrap, green goods, panel house, Cornish hug, wolf in sheep's clothing, disguise, disguisement, false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes, pattes de velours, mockery, copy, counterfeit, sham, make- believe, forgery, fraud, lie, a delusion a mockery and a snare, hollow mockery, whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher, tinsel, paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels, scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint, veneer, jerry building, man of straw, illusion, ignis fatuus, mirage, deceived, deceiving, cunning, prestigious, prestigiatory, deceptive, deceptious, deceitful, covinous, delusive, delusory, illusive, illusory, elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus, untrue, mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard, surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated, unsound, rotten at the core, colorable, disguised, meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated, catchpenny, Brummagem, artificial, synthetic, ersatz, simulated, under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of, over the left, keep the word of promise to the ear and break it t, fronti nulla fides, ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, a quicksand of deceit, decipimur specie recti, falsi crimen, fraus est celare fraudem, lupus in fabula, so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue.