| Main Entry: | underhandedness |
| 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, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| 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: | 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: | trickery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, joke |
Synonyms: |
bait and switch, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, deceit, dishonesty, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, dupery, fast shuffle, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, funny business, guile, hoax, imposture, pretense, quackery, razzle-dazzle, scam, sharp practice, shell game, shenanigans*, snow job, sting*, stunt, swindling, underhandedness |
| Main Entry: | artfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
Synonyms: |
artifice, caginess, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, sneakiness, underhandedness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | crookedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
Synonyms: |
corruptness, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, improbity, shadiness, underhandedness, unlawfulness |
| 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: | false-heartedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness |
Synonyms: |
dishonesty, disloyalty, falseness, falsity, perfidiousness, perfidy, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery, underhandedness, unfaithfulness |
| 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 |