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double-dealing
adjective as in cheating, deceitful
noun as in betrayal, cheating
adjective as in insincere
adjective as in lying
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adjective as in perfidious
adjective as in sly
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- arch
- artful
- astute
- bluffing
- cagey
- calculating
- captious
- conniving
- covert
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- designing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- dissembling
- elusive
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- insidious
- mean
- plotting
- scheming
- secret
- sharp
- shifty
- slick
- smooth
- sneaking
- stealthy
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in sneaky
adjective as in treacherous
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adjective as in two-faced
adjective as in unprincipled
adjective as in untruthful
adjective as in venal
adjective as in ambidextrous
adjective as in double-faced
adjective as in mala fide
adjective as in Pecksniffian
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- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in perjurious
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adjective as in pharisaic
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- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- Pecksniffian
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in pharisaical
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- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- Pecksniffian
- pharisaic
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in sneaking
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adjective as in corrupt
adjective as in crooked
adjective as in deceitful
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adjective as in devious
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adjective as in dirty
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adjective as in dishonest
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adjective as in double-dealing
adjective as in duplicitous
adjective as in faithless
adjective as in false
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- apostate
- base
- beguiling
- canting
- corrupt
- crooked
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- devious
- dishonorable
- disloyal
- duplicitous
- faithless
- falsehearted
- forsworn
- foul
- lying
- malevolent
- mean
- mythomaniac
- perfidious
- perjured
- rascally
- recreant
- renegade
- scoundrelly
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- villainous
- wicked
adjective as in fraudulent
adjective as in hypocritical
noun as in intrigue
noun as in pretense
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- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
noun as in scam
noun as in swindle
noun as in treachery
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noun as in trick
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noun as in trickery
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noun as in betrayal
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noun as in sleight of hand
noun as in ambidexterity
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noun as in artificiality
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noun as in cheat
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noun as in disingenuousness
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noun as in chicanery
noun as in indirection
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- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in perfidy
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noun as in pharisaism
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
noun as in phoniness
noun as in phoniness
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
noun as in sanctimoniousness
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noun as in sanctimony
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noun as in sellout
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noun as in shadiness
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- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in shiftiness
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in shiftiness
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noun as in slyness
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in sneakiness
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in tartuffery
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
noun as in treacherousness
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noun as in trickiness
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- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in two-facedness
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- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- unctuousness
noun as in underhandedness
Weak matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- 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
noun as in victimization
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noun as in deceit
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noun as in deception
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noun as in dirt
noun as in dishonesty
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noun as in disloyalty
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noun as in double-dealing
noun as in duplicity
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noun as in falsity
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noun as in fraud
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noun as in grift
noun as in hanky-panky
noun as in hypocrisy
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verb as in play dirty
verb as in shortchange
verb as in trick
verb as in cheat
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Example Sentences
Israeli politics will now devolve into a fierce period of horse-trading, double dealing, and speculation.
Well, if Washington had any brains, it would not continue to let Karzai get away with this double-dealing.
If true, this would represent an extreme example of double dealing, even by Pakistani standards.
It's a legitimate question from those critical of Obama and wary of the Pakistani army's double-dealing.
On him, it is said, the King turned with vehement indignation, charging him even with treason and double-dealing.
De Gery pointed out very clearly all the infamies and all the double dealing which surrounded him.
At first they thought that they would have to guard themselves against roguery and double-dealing on the part of the tin workers.
His conduct at this time as at all others laid him open to charges of double dealing and treachery.
Of course it was done honestly; nobody suspects the Mayor of Boston of double-dealing, of intrigue, or of any indirection!
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On this page you'll find 126 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to double-dealing, such as: double, lying, ambidextrous, crooked, dishonest, and duplicitous.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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