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insidiousness
noun as in dishonesty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in indirection
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in shadiness
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- 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
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in slyness
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- 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
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in trickiness
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
noun as in underhandedness
Weak matches
- 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
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
Example Sentences
She saw O-liver start from his chair and sink back, helpless against the insidiousness of this attack.
The constancy and the strength of temptation, and the insidiousness of the arguments it was supported by, has been proverbial.
Indeed, it is perhaps more damaging in its secondary effects because of its insidiousness.
But this lent a new insidiousness to his temptation, since her contempt would be a refuge from his own.
Its insidiousness makes it exceedingly difficult to recognize.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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