shifty [shif-tee]
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shifty [shif-tee]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, untrustworthy
Synonyms: cagey, collusive, conniving, contriving, crafty, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, dodging, duplicitous, elusive, equivocating, evasive, fly-by-night, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious, lying, mendacious, prevaricative, prevaricatory, roguish, scheming, shady, shrewd, shuffling, slick, slimy*, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unhonest, unprincipled, untruthful, wily
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, trustworthy
Main Entry: cunning
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: devious
Synonyms: Machiavellian, acute, artful, astute, cagey, canny, crafty, crazy like fox, deep, fancy footwork, foxy, guileful, insidious, keen, knowing, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, sly boots, smart, smarts, smooth, street-smart, streetwise, subtle, tricky, wary, wily
Antonyms: gullible, kind, naive, shy
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
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright
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
Main Entry: dirty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest
Synonyms: below the belt, cheating, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, foul, shabby, shady, shifty, sleazy, sneaky, sordid, underhanded, unethical, unscrupulous, untruthful
Antonyms: clean, nice
Main Entry: dishonest
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lying, untruthful
Synonyms: backbiting, bent, bluffing, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-crossing, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, guileful, hoodwinking, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaking, sneaky, swindling, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily
Antonyms: aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, principled, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful
Main Entry: disingenuous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: insincere
Synonyms: artful, crooked, cunning, deceitful, designing, dishonest, duplicitous, false, feigned, foxy, guileful, indirect, insidious, mendacious, oblique, shifty, sly, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhanded, unfair, unfrank, wily
Antonyms: frank, honest, ingenuous, naive, sincere
Main Entry: elusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evasive, mysterious
Synonyms: ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, difficult to catch, elusory, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugacious, fugitive, greasy, illusory, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, stonewalling, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, unspecific, volatile
Antonyms: attracting, confronting, encountering, enticing, facing, inviting
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