Noun

• S: (n) goldbrick (a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort)
• S: (n) goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught (an idle worthless person)
• S: (n) goldbrick (a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) goldbrick (anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless)
• domain usage
• S: (n) trope, figure of speech, figure, image (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• domain term usage
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
• S: (n) device (something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect)
• S: (n) expressive style, style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period) "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
• S: (n) communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

Verb

• S: (v) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con (deprive of by deceit) "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her";
• S: (v) fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick (avoid (one's assigned duties)) "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"