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insidiousness
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, 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, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness |
| 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 |
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| Main Entry: | shiftiness |
| 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, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slyness |
| 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, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sneakiness |
| 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, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trickiness |
| 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, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
Machiavellian, abject, any, base, base, blackguard, contemptible, corrupt, crooked, dark, dead to honor, debased, degraded, derogatory, dirty, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, disingenuous, disloyal, double, emptitious, faithless, false, false, fishy, foul, fraudulent, groveling, ignominious, indign, infamous, inglorious, insidious, knavish, little, lost to shame, louche, low, mean, mongrel, of bad faith, one, perfidious, perjured, pettifogging, rascally, recreant, scabby, schlenter, scrubby, scurvy, shabby, slippery, sneaking, time, treacherous, trothless, trustless, truthless, unauthenticated, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, unchivalric, unconscientious, unconscionable, undignified, unfair, unfaithful, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, unhandsome, unknightly, unmanly, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, vile, wicked
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