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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | bamboozling, counterfeit, crafty, criminal, crooked, deceitful, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, duplicitous, fake, forged, mock, phony, pseudo, sham*, spurious, swindling, treacherous, tricky |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, honest, real, valid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clandestine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, sly |
| Synonyms: | artful, cloak-and-dagger, closet, concealed, covert, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, hidden, hush-hush, illegitimate, illicit, in holes and corners, on the Q. T., on the quiet, private, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, under wraps, under-the-counter, undercover, underground, underhand |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, forthright, open, truthful |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crafty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, scheming |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, crazy like fox, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, insidious, intelligent, keen, knowing, sharp, shrewd, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, street smart, streetwise, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily |
| Antonyms: | honest, naive, unclever |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, corrupt |
| Synonyms: | crafty, criminal, deceitful, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, dubious, fraudulent, illegal, indirect, iniquitous, lying, nefarious, questionable, ruthless, shady, shifty, suborned, treacherous, underhand, unlawful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untruthful |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, law-abiding, lawful, moral |
| 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 |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, crafty |
| Synonyms: | artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, faking one out, fishy, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere, not straightforward, oblique, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily |
| Antonyms: | artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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