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dirty dealing
noun as in deceit
Strong matches
noun as in duplicity
Strong matches
noun as in guile
noun as in perfidy
Strong matches
noun as in shiftiness
Strong matches
noun as in treacherousness
Weak matches
noun as in treachery
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in lubricious
Weak matches
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- disingenuous
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in underhand
Strong match
Weak matches
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- sub-rosa
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in unethical
adjective as in unprincipled
Example Sentences
She appeared in rapper Yung Gravy’s music video, did an episode of the Charlie Sheen sitcom “Anger Management” and had a supporting role in a Michael Madsen movie called “Dirty Dealing 3-D” that was never released in theaters.
Still, Kagan argued, this particular restriction targets an uncommonly dangerous kind of “dirty dealing”: They do not even fund political speech, but instead “personally enrich those already elected to office.”
As Crooked Media editor-in-chief Brian Beutler pointed out on Twitter, the problem is that the media treats Republican "dirty dealing as a constant," as if it's the weather and not the actions of autonomous actors.
So the Wildcat faithful can only bemoan the scandal suddenly unfolding before them, one involving mysterious hirings and firings, rampant rumors and allegations of dirty dealing by some of the South’s most famous college coaches.
Donald Trump’s denial of dirty dealing in Ukraine took a serious hit – a roundhouse on the chin – with the closed-door testimony on Tuesday of a diplomat who was directly involved in communications between Ukraine and the White House.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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