| Main Entry: | roguish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful; mischievous |
Synonyms: |
beguiling, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceiving, deceptive, devilish, dishonest, fraudulent, impish, knavish, lying, naughty, playful, puckish, rascally, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhand, underhanded, unprincipled, untruthful |
| Main Entry: | arch |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knowing, coy |
Synonyms: |
artful, frolicsome, mischievous, pert, playful, roguish, saucy, sly, waggish, wily |
| Main Entry: | deceitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, insincere |
Synonyms: |
artful, astucious, astute, beguiling, clandestine, counterfeit, crafty, cunning, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, double-dealing, duplicitous, fallacious, false, feline, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hypocritical, illusory, impostrous, indirect, insidious, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading, rascal, roguish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, untrustworthy, untruthful, wily |
| Notes: | deceitful means intended to deceive or cheat while deceptive means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone |
Antonyms: |
faithful, frank, honest, loyal, open, sincere, trustworthy, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, astucious, beguiling, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, imposturous, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily |
Antonyms: |
forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | frolicsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
Synonyms: |
antic, coltish, frisky, fun, gamesome, gay, gleeful, happy, impish, jocular, jovial, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, roguish, rollicking, sportive, sprightly |
Antonyms: |
serious, staid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | jocular/jocose/jocund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny, playful |
Synonyms: |
amusing, blithe, camp, cheerful, comic, comical, crazy, daffy, droll, facetious, flaky*, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jesting, jokey, joking, jolly, joshing, jovial, joyous, laughable, lighthearted, lively, ludicrous, merry, mischievous, pleasant, roguish, sportive, teasing, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty |
Antonyms: |
morose, serious, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | shifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, untrustworthy |
Synonyms: |
cagey, collusive, conniving, contriving, crafty, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, dodging, duplicitous, elusive, equivocating, evasive, fly-by-night, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious, lying, mendacious, prevaricative, prevaricatory, roguish, scheming, shady, shrewd, shuffling, slick, slimy*, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unhonest, unprincipled, untruthful, wily |
Antonyms: |
forthright, frank, honest, trustworthy |
| 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: | sporting/sportive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful and fair |
Synonyms: |
antic, coltish, considerate, devil-may-care, frisky, frolicsome, full of fun, game, gamesome, gay, generous, impish, jaunty, joyous, larkish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, rollicking, sportspersonlike, sprightly, square, wild |
Antonyms: |
unfair, unplayful, unsporting |
| Main Entry: | jocular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny |
Synonyms: |
amusing, blithe, boffo, camp, campy, cheerful, comic, comical, crazy, daffy, droll, facetious, flaky, for grins, frolicsome, gagged up, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocund, jokey, joking, jolly, joshing, jovial, joyous, laughable, lighthearted, lively, ludicrous, merry, mischievous, playful, pleasant, roguish, sportive, teasing, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty |
Antonyms: |
serious, solemn |