| Main Entry: | snide |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, nasty |
Synonyms: |
base, cynical, disparaging, hurtful, insinuating, malicious, mean, sarcastic, scornful, sneering, spiteful, unkind |
Antonyms: |
gentle, kind, lovable, loving, nice |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
Synonyms: |
base, bent, bribable, crooked, debauched, double-dealing, exploiting, extortionate, faithless, fast and loose, fixed, foul, fraudulent, gone to the dogs, inconstant, iniquitous, knavish, mercenary, nefarious, on the take, open, padded, perfidious, praetorian, profiteering, racket up, reprobate, rotten, shady, snide, suborned, tainted, treacherous, two-faced, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, wide open |
Antonyms: |
decent, honest, honorable, principled, pure, trustworthy, truthful, uncorrupt, upright |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, simulated |
Synonyms: |
Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, put-on, queer, sham, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
Antonyms: |
genuine, real, true |
| 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 |
| 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: |
forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, counterfeit |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, alloyed, artificial, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, bum*, colored, contrived, copied, crock, deceptive, disguised, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, feigned, fishy, forged, framed, hollow, imitation, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, meretricious, mock, ostensible, phony, pretended, pseudo*, seeming, shady, sham*, simulated, snide, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unreal, wrong |
Antonyms: |
actual, genuine, real, valid |
| Main Entry: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
Antonyms: |
actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | insincere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, pretended |
Synonyms: |
ambidextrous, backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, dissembling, dissimulating, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, put-on, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful |
Antonyms: |
forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, rude |
Synonyms: |
bad-tempered, callous, cantankerous, churlish, contemptible, dangerous, despicable, difficult, dirty*, disagreeable, dishonorable, down*, evil, formidable, hard, hard-nosed, ignoble, ill-tempered, infamous, knavish, liverish, lousy*, low-down and dirty, malicious, malign, nasty, perfidious, pesky, rotten, rough, rugged, scurrilous, shameless, sinking, snide, sour, the lowest, touch, treacherous, troublesome, ugly, unfriendly, unpleasant, unscrupulous, vexatious, vicious, vile |
Antonyms: |
compassionate, kind, nice, noble, polite, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | sneaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underhanded, dishonest |
Synonyms: |
base, contemptible, cowardly, deceitful, devious, disingenuous, double-dealing, duplicitous, furtive, guileful, indirect, low, malicious, mean, nasty, recreant, secretive, shifty, slippery, sly, sneaking, snide, stealthy, surreptitious, tricky, underhand, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, yellow* |
Antonyms: |
aboveboard, candid, forthright, frank, honest |
| Main Entry: | spiteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, nasty |
Synonyms: |
accidentally on purpose, angry, barbed, catty, cruel, cussed, despiteful, dirty, evil, hateful, ill-disposed, ill-natured, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, ornery*, rancorous, snide, spleenful, splenetic, venomous, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked |
Antonyms: |
affectionate, forgiving, helpful, loving, pleasing |