double-dealing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheating, deceitful |
| Synonyms: | crooked, dishonest, double, duplicitous, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, lying, perfidious, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, wily, ambidextrous, left- handed, swindling |
| Antonyms: | forthright, honest, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | betrayal, cheating |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play*, fraud, hanky-panky*, hypocrisy, mendacity, treachery, trickery, two-timing, bad faith, chicane, fourberie, perfidy, sharp practice |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, dishonesty, dodge, double-dealing*, duplicity, feint, fraud, gambit, hanky-panky*, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, chicane, deviousness, double-crossing, fourberie, furtiveness, sharp practice, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, insincere |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, clandestine, counterfeit, crafty, cunning, deceptive, delusive, designing, disingenuous, double-dealing, duplicitous, fallacious, false, feline, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, hypocritical, illusory, indirect, insidious, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading, rascal, roguish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, untrustworthy, untruthful, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, delusory, guileful, impostrous |
| Antonyms: | faithful, frank, honest, loyal, open, sincere, trustworthy, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying, untruthful |
| Synonyms: | backbiting*, bent, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaky, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, guileful, hoodwinking, sneaking, swindling |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful, principled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicanery, corruption, craft, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam*, fraud, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hocus-pocus*, infamy, infidelity, mendacity, racket, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, chicane, criminality, crookedness, fourberie, fraudulence, improbity, insidiousness, perfidiousness, perfidy, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, openness, scrupulousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disloyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfaithfulness |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, disaffection, double-dealing, faithlessness, falsity, infidelity, sedition, treachery, treason, violation, apostasy, bad faith, betrayal of trust, breach of trust, breaking of faith, falseness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, seditiousness, subversive activity, untrueness |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, loyalty, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | duplicitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing, shady, two-faced, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | duplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty pool*, dirty work*, dishonesty, double-dealing, dualism, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, skullduggery, treachery, Judas kiss, dirty dealing, dirty trick, dissemblance, dissimulation, duality, perfidiousness, perfidy, stab in back, treacherousness, two-facedness, twoness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, forthrightness, trustworthiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faithless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disloyal |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing*, doubting, dubious, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, skeptical, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, two-timing, unbelieving, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wavering, changeful, double-crossing, fluctuating, unconverted, unloyal |
| Antonyms: | believing, constant, faithful, loyal, reliable, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
| Synonyms: | canard, cheating, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, unfaithfulness, untruth, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, erroneousness, fraudulence, perfidiousness, perfidy, uncandidness, unreality |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | fraudulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, crafty, criminal, crooked, deceitful, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing*, duplicitous, fake, forged, mock, phony, pseudo, sham*, spurious, treacherous, tricky, bamboozling, swindling |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, honest, real, valid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swindle |
| Synonyms: | cheating, con game*, confidence game, deceit, dirty pool*, double-dealing*, extortion, fix, fraud, racket*, rip-off*, scam, shell game*, stealing, sting, trickery, shady deal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hanky-panky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | monkey business |
| Synonyms: | amour, chicanery, dalliance, deception, dirty pool, double-dealing, fling, flirtation, fraud, liaison, love affair, mischief, monkey business*, romance, shenanigans*, skullduggery*, subterfuge, trickery, chicane, devilry, fooling around, fourberie, funny business, funny business, hankie-pankie, hokey-pokey, knavery, machinations, sexual activity, sharp practice |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hypocrisy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness, pretense |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing, duplicity, falsity, fraud, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, quackery, bad faith, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, deceptive, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, fishy*, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, left-handed, lying, oily, phony, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced*, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable, caviling, deluding, dissembling, feigning, jivey, moralistic, pharisaical, pietistic, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued |
| Antonyms: | actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insincere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, pretended |
| Synonyms: | backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced*, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful, ambidextrous, dissembling, dissimulating, put-on |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, delusive, double-dealing*, false, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, shifty, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unreliable, untruthful, wrong, committing perjury, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, equivocating, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, misrepresenting, misstating, prevaricating |
| Antonyms: | direct, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perfidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | treacherous |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, double-dealing*, faithless, false, insidious, misleading, recreant, shifty*, slick*, snake in the grass, traitorous, two-faced*, two-timing, undependable, unfaithful, unreliable, untrustworthy, betraying, double-crossing, unloyal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
| Synonyms: | act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, double-dealing*, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, pretext, routine, ruse, semblance, sham*, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile, dissimulation, dumb act, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, schtick, shuffling |
| Antonyms: | honesty, reality, truth, openness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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