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Main Entry: sly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, devious

Synonyms:

arch, artful, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, conniving, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, guileful, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, plotting, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, sneaking, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily

Antonyms:

honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever
Main Entry: arch
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: knowing, coy

Synonyms:

artful, frolicsome, mischievous, pert, playful, roguish, saucy, sly, waggish, wily
Main Entry: artful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: skillful; cunning

Synonyms:

adept, adroit, clever, crafty, designing, dexterous, foxy*, ingenious, masterly, politic, proficient, resourceful, scheming, sharp, shrewd, slick*, sly, smart, smooth*, tricky, wily

Antonyms:

artless, ingenuous, naive, unskillful
Main Entry: astute
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: perceptive

Synonyms:

adroit, brainy, bright, calculating, canny, clever, crafty, discerning, foxy, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, not born yesterday, on the ball, perspicacious, quick on the uptake, sagacious, savvy, sharp, sharp as a tack, shrewd, sly

Antonyms:

asinine, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, obtuse, shallow, stupid, thick, unintelligent
Main Entry: cagey
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tricky

Synonyms:

cagey, careful, circumspect, crafty, cunning, leery, secretive, shrewd, sly, wary, wily
Main Entry: calculating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scheming to manipulate

Synonyms:

Machiavellian, artful, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, contriving, crafty, cunning, designing, devious, discreet, gingerly, guarded, guileful, intelligent, manipulative, politic, premeditating, safe, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, wary, wily

Antonyms:

artless, naive, unassuming, uncalculating
Main Entry: canny
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, artful

Synonyms:

able, acute, adroit, astute, cagey, careful, cautious, circumspect, cunning, dexterous, discreet, foxy*, frugal, having fancy footwork, hep, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, knowing, nimble-witted, perspicacious, prudent, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth*, street smart, streetwise, subtle, wary, watchful, wise, with it, worldly-wise

Antonyms:

foolish, inept, silly
Main Entry: clever
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bright, ingenious

Synonyms:

able, adept, adroit, alert, apt, astute, brainy, brilliant, cagey, canny, capable, competent, crackerjack*, cunning, deep, dexterous/dextrous, discerning, egghead, expert, foxy*, gifted, good, handy, intelligent, inventive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, many-sided, nimble, nobody's fool, pretty, pro, qualified, quick, quick on trigger, quick-witted, rational, resourceful, sagacious, savvy, sensible, sharp, shrewd, skilled, skillful, slick, sly, smart, sprightly, talented, versatile, wise, witty

Antonyms:

awkward, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, naive, senseless, stupid, unclever
Main Entry: crafty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, scheming

Synonyms:

adroit, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, crazy like fox, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, insidious, intelligent, keen, knowing, sharp, shrewd, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, street smart, streetwise, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily

Antonyms:

honest, naive, unclever
Main Entry: cunning
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: devious

Synonyms:

Machiavellian, acute, artful, astute, cagey, canny, crafty, crazy like fox, deep, fancy footwork, foxy, guileful, insidious, keen, knowing, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, sly boots, smart, smarts, smooth, street-smart, streetwise, subtle, tricky, wary, wily

Antonyms:

gullible, kind, naive, shy
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