| Main Entry: | craftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness |
Synonyms: |
chicanery, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, foxiness, guile, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness |
| Main Entry: | craftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artfulness |
Synonyms: |
artifice, caginess, canniness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slickness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
Synonyms: |
artfulness, artifice, astuteness, canniness, craftiness, deceit, duplicity, guile, slyness, trickery, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | artifice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning; deception |
Synonyms: |
artfulness, chicanery, craftiness, dishonesty, duplicity, guile, scheming, slyness, trickery, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
candor, frankness, honesty, honor, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, reality, sincerity, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit, scheme |
Synonyms: |
art, artfulness, artifice, cageyness, canniness, contrivance, craftiness, cunning, disingenuity, duplicity, foxiness, guile, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, subtlety, trickery, wiles, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
honesty, openness |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice of misleading |
Synonyms: |
ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, entrapping, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, overreaching, pretense, slyness, smoke and mirrors, trapping, treachery, trickery, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, openness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
Synonyms: |
beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | device |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ploy, scheme, maneuver |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cabal, chicanery, clever move, craft, craftiness, cunningness, design, dodge, evasion, expedient, fake, feint, finesse, gambit, game, gimmick, improvisation, loophole, machination, method, pattern, plan, plot, project, proposition, purpose, racket, ruse, shift, stratagem, strategy, stunt, subterfuge, trap, trick, wile |
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
Synonyms: |
acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | guile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slyness, cleverness |
Synonyms: |
artfulness, artifice, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-cross, duplicity, foul play, jive, run-around, ruse, sellout, sharp practice, stab in the back, treachery, trickery, trickiness, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
artlessness, frankness, honesty, naivety, openness, sincerity |