| Main Entry: | deviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
Synonyms: |
artfulness, chicanery, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, foxiness, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness |
| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | craftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness |
Synonyms: |
chicanery, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, foxiness, guile, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness |
| Main Entry: | crookedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
Synonyms: |
corruptness, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, improbity, shadiness, underhandedness, unlawfulness |
| Main Entry: | foxiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artfulness |
Synonyms: |
caginess, canniness, chicanery, craftiness, cunning, deviousness, guile, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | indirection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | shadiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | shiftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | slyness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | sneakiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |