Related Words:
- bungler
collapse - someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence related words >
- blockhead,
- blunderbuss,
- blunderer,
- blunderhead,
- boor,
- botcher,
- bumbler,
- clod,
- clodhopper,
- clodknocker,
- clot,
- clown,
- disregarder,
- dodger,
- dolt,
- fumbler,
- gawk,
- goldbrick,
- goof-off,
- gowk,
- idler,
- ignorer,
- klutz,
- looby,
- lout,
- lubber,
- malingerer,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- oaf,
- ox,
- procrastinator,
- shirker,
- slacker,
- slouch,
- sloven,
- slubberer,
- slut,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence,
- yokel
- procrastinator
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- someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) related words >
- bungler,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- disregarder,
- dodger,
- drone,
- foot-dragger,
- goldbrick,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- ignorer,
- laggard,
- lie-abed,
- lingerer,
- loiterer,
- malingerer,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- plodder,
- shirker,
- slacker,
- sleepyhead,
- sloven,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- slut,
- snail,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tortoise,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- goldbrick
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- anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
- a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
- an idle worthless person
- a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort related words >
- abandon,
- boiler room,
- bucket shop,
- bum,
- bunco game,
- bungler,
- clock watcher,
- con game,
- confidence game,
- cut,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- disregarder,
- do-nothing,
- dodge,
- dodger,
- dog it,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- duck,
- duck duty,
- eye-servant,
- faineant,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- get out of,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- ignorer,
- jump,
- laggard,
- laze,
- lazy,
- leave,
- leave loose ends,
- leave undone,
- let alone,
- let be,
- let dangle,
- let go,
- lie-abed,
- lingerer,
- loaf,
- loafer,
- loiter,
- loiterer,
- loll,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malinger,
- malingerer,
- miss,
- mope,
- moper,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- not pull fair,
- old soldier,
- omit,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- plodder,
- potterer,
- pretermit,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- shell game,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skin game,
- skip,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slack,
- slacker,
- sleepyhead,
- slide out of,
- slinker,
- slip out of,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- sloven,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- slut,
- snail,
- sneak out of,
- soldier,
- spiv,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tax dodger,
- thimblerig,
- thimblerigging,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trifle,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsh,
- welsher
- joker
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- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent; "when I demanded my money he showed me the joker in the contract"
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" related words >
- Adamite,
- Artful Dodger,
- Casanova,
- Don Juan,
- Machiavel,
- Machiavelli,
- Machiavellian,
- ace,
- actor,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- astonishment,
- bad boy,
- bag of tricks,
- bamboozler,
- banana,
- bastard,
- befuddler,
- beguiler,
- being,
- best bower,
- bill,
- bird,
- blind,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockbuster,
- blow,
- bluff,
- body,
- bomb,
- bombshell,
- booger,
- bosey,
- bottleneck,
- boundary condition,
- bower,
- buffoon,
- bugger,
- burlesquer,
- calendar,
- card,
- cards,
- caricaturist,
- cat,
- catch,
- catch-22,
- chap,
- character,
- charmer,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- clause,
- clown,
- clubs,
- comedian,
- comedienne,
- comic,
- companion bills amendment,
- condition,
- cordon,
- counterfeiter,
- creature,
- crux,
- curtain,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- customer,
- cutup,
- deceiver,
- deck,
- deluder,
- design,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- deuce,
- device,
- devil,
- diamonds,
- difficulty,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- dodge,
- dodger,
- donnee,
- double-dealer,
- dragnet clause,
- drawback,
- droll,
- duck,
- dummy,
- duper,
- earthling,
- earthshaker,
- elf,
- enacting clause,
- enchanter,
- enfant terrible,
- entrancer,
- epigrammatist,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- eye-opener,
- face cards,
- faker,
- farceur,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- feller,
- fellow,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fine print,
- flush,
- fooler,
- forger,
- full house,
- funmaker,
- funnyman,
- gag writer,
- gagman,
- gagster,
- gambit,
- gay deceiver,
- gimmick,
- given,
- googly,
- groundling,
- grounds,
- guy,
- hand,
- hang-up,
- hazard,
- head,
- hearts,
- hitch,
- hoaxer,
- hocus-pocus,
- hold-up bill,
- homo,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- human,
- human being,
- humorist,
- hurdle,
- hypnotizer,
- imp,
- individual,
- ironist,
- jack,
- jasper,
- jester,
- jilt,
- jilter,
- jokesmith,
- jokester,
- juggle,
- kicker,
- kidder,
- king,
- knave,
- lad,
- lampooner,
- left bower,
- leg-puller,
- life,
- limiting condition,
- little devil,
- little monkey,
- little rascal,
- living soul,
- madcap,
- man,
- mesmerizer,
- minx,
- mischief,
- mischief-maker,
- misleader,
- mortal,
- motion,
- nose,
- objection,
- obligation,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- omnibus bill,
- one,
- one small difficulty,
- pack,
- pair,
- parameter,
- parodist,
- party,
- pass,
- peripeteia,
- person,
- personage,
- personality,
- picture cards,
- pinch,
- pitfall,
- pixie,
- plagiarist,
- plagiarizer,
- playactor,
- playing cards,
- ploy,
- practical joker,
- prankster,
- prerequisite,
- privileged question,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- puck,
- punner,
- punster,
- queen,
- question,
- quipster,
- ragger,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- reparteeist,
- requisite,
- revelation,
- rider,
- rogue,
- role-player,
- round,
- rowdy,
- royal flush,
- rub,
- rubber,
- ruff,
- ruffian,
- ruse,
- satirist,
- saving clause,
- scamp,
- scapegrace,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- seducer,
- shift,
- shocker,
- sine qua non,
- single,
- singleton,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- small print,
- snag,
- somebody,
- someone,
- soul,
- spades,
- specification,
- spoofer,
- staggerer,
- startler,
- stipulation,
- straight,
- stratagem,
- string,
- stud,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- subterfuge,
- surprisal,
- surprise,
- surprise ending,
- surprise package,
- surprise party,
- switch,
- tease,
- teaser,
- tellurian,
- terms,
- terran,
- thunderbolt,
- thunderclap,
- trap,
- trey,
- trick,
- trickster,
- trump,
- twist,
- ultimatum,
- wag,
- wagwit,
- whereas,
- wile,
- wisecracker,
- wit,
- witling,
- worldling,
- zany
- untruthful
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- not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person" related words >
- artful,
- calculating,
- crafty,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- equivocal,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- forsworn,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- insincere,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- misleading,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- roguish,
- scheming,
- shifty,
- truthless,
- uncandid,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- unveracious,
- wrong
- endearment
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- the act of showing affection related words >
- clock watcher
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- a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time related words >
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- eye-servant,
- faineant,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malingerer,
- mope,
- moper,
- old soldier,
- potterer,
- putterer,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- soldier,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tax dodger,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsher
- Machiavellian,
- alienated,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- corrupt,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- disaffected,
- dishonest,
- disloyal,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- estranged,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- hypocritical,
- insidious,
- mercenary,
- recreant,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- treasonable,
- treasonous,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unfaithful,
- unloyal,
- untrue,
- venal
- sweet nothings
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- inconsequential expressions of affection; "he whispered sweet nothings into her ear" related words >
- adulation,
- artful endearments,
- blandishment,
- blandishments,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- caress,
- compliment,
- endearment,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- grease,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- oil,
- palaver,
- pat,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- wheedling
- trifler
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- one who behaves lightly or not seriously related words >
- Sunday painter,
- amateur,
- bungler,
- clock watcher,
- coquet,
- criticaster,
- dabbler,
- dabster,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dilettante,
- dillydallier,
- disregarder,
- do-nothing,
- dodger,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- faineant,
- flirt,
- fribble,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- grammaticaster,
- half scholar,
- idler,
- ignorer,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malingerer,
- mope,
- moper,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- philologaster,
- philosophaster,
- piddler,
- potterer,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- sciolist,
- shirker,
- slacker,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- sloven,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- slut,
- smatterer,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- waiter on Providence
- abandoned,
- abjured,
- artful,
- calculating,
- ceded,
- contemned,
- crafty,
- deceitful,
- declined,
- declined with thanks,
- denied,
- despised,
- disapproved,
- discarded,
- discounted,
- disdained,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dismissed,
- disowned,
- dispensed with,
- disposed of,
- equivocal,
- excepted,
- excluded,
- falsehearted,
- forgone,
- ignored,
- insincere,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- not considered,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- rebuffed,
- recanted,
- refused,
- rejected,
- released,
- relinquished,
- renounced,
- repudiated,
- repulsed,
- retracted,
- sacrificed,
- scheming,
- scouted,
- spurned,
- surrendered,
- truthless,
- uncandid,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- waived,
- yielded
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- wily
- vulpine
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- resembling or characteristic of a fox; "vulpine cunning" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- canine,
- canny,
- clever,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- doggy,
- feline,
- foxlike,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lupine,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- wary,
- wily,
- wolfish
- skulk
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- move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day" related words >
- army,
- bunch,
- clock watcher,
- colony,
- couch,
- cower,
- creep,
- cringe,
- crouch,
- dodge,
- dog it,
- drift,
- drive,
- drove,
- duck,
- duck duty,
- eye-servant,
- flock,
- gam,
- gang,
- get out of,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- gumshoe,
- herd,
- host,
- kennel,
- lay wait,
- lie in wait,
- litter,
- lurk,
- malinger,
- malingerer,
- nightwalk,
- not pull fair,
- old soldier,
- pack,
- pod,
- pride,
- prowl,
- pussyfoot,
- quail,
- school,
- shadow,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- shoal,
- skulker,
- slack,
- slacker,
- slide out of,
- slink,
- slip,
- slip out of,
- sloth,
- snake,
- sneak,
- sneak out of,
- soldier,
- stalk,
- steal,
- tax dodger,
- tiptoe,
- trip,
- troop,
- truant,
- welsh,
- welsher
- disingenuous
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- not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" related words >
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- calculating,
- casuistic,
- clever,
- colorable,
- contriving,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- designing,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feigned,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- left-handed,
- mealymouthed,
- oblique,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perjured,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- plotting,
- scheming,
- shifty,
- slick,
- sly,
- smooth,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- tongue in cheek,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- wily
- cagey
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- characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- canny,
- chary,
- clever,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- distrustful,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- evasive,
- feline,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- leery,
- malingering,
- mistrustful,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- red herring
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- any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
- a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color related words >
- anguille,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- blind,
- caviar,
- chicanery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- eel,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- fish,
- fish eggs,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- kipper,
- kippered salmon,
- knavery,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- move,
- plot,
- ploy,
- poisson,
- racket,
- roe,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- seafood,
- shift,
- sleight,
- smoked herring,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- trick,
- trickery,
- wile,
- wily device
- artful,
- burr,
- calculating,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cross-hatching,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- demitint,
- engravement,
- engraving,
- etch,
- etching,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gem-engraving,
- glass-cutting,
- glyptic,
- graving,
- guileful,
- half tint,
- hatching,
- incision,
- indirect,
- inscript,
- inscription,
- insidious,
- line,
- lining,
- marking,
- scheming,
- score,
- scoring,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- slash,
- slashing,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- stipple,
- stippling,
- surreptitious,
- tint,
- tooling,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- type-cutting,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- wily
- palladium
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- a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry related words >
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- pad,
- padding,
- patent,
- pilot,
- preventive,
- prophylactic,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- safeguard,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- seat belt,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- sun helmet,
- umbrella,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- patent,
- pilot,
- preventive,
- prophylactic,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- safeguard,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- seat belt,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- sun helmet,
- umbrella,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- windshield
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- transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle related words >
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- patent,
- pilot,
- preventive,
- prophylactic,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- safeguard,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- seat belt,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- sun helmet,
- umbrella,
- windscreen
- seat belt
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- a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident related words >
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- patent,
- pilot,
- preventive,
- prophylactic,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- safeguard,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- sun helmet,
- umbrella,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- lightning rod
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- a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning
- someone who is a frequent target of negative reactions and serves to distract attention from another related words >
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- patent,
- pilot,
- preventive,
- prophylactic,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- safeguard,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- seat belt,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- sun helmet,
- umbrella,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- Byzantine
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- a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
- characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "a fine hand for Byzantine deals and cozy arrangements"
- highly complex or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
- of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- artful,
- balled up,
- calculating,
- canny,
- collusive,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- convoluted,
- crabbed,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- daedal,
- designing,
- devious,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- fouled up,
- foxy,
- gordian,
- guileful,
- implicated,
- insidious,
- intricate,
- intriguing,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- knowing,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- pawky,
- perplexed,
- plotting,
- ramified,
- roundabout,
- scheming,
- screwed up,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- sly,
- snarled,
- sophisticated,
- stratagemical,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- twisted,
- up to,
- wily
- dirty trick
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- an unkind or aggressive trick related words >
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty pool,
- dirty work,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- falseheartedness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- gambit,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- hocus-pocus,
- joker,
- juggle,
- pass,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- ploy,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trick,
- wile
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- sagacious,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- vulpine,
- wary
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- duplicitous,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- Janus-like,
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- bifacial,
- bifold,
- biform,
- bilateral,
- binary,
- binate,
- biparous,
- bivalent,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- conduplicate,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- dishonest,
- disomatous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- dual,
- duple,
- duplex,
- duplicate,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- geminate,
- geminated,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- perfidious,
- scheming,
- second,
- secondary,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- twin,
- twinned,
- two-level,
- two-ply,
- two-sided,
- two-story,
- twofold,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- wily
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellianism,
- ambidexterity,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceitfulness,
- dirty pool,
- dirty trick,
- dirty work,
- dishonest,
- dishonesty,
- double,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicitous,
- duplicity,
- faithless,
- faithlessness,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- hanky-panky,
- hypocritical,
- improbity,
- left-handed,
- low cunning,
- perfidious,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- sharp practice,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- treacherous,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trickery,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- two-facedness,
- wile
- calculating
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- used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- artful,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- chiseling,
- circumspect,
- collusive,
- computational,
- computative,
- computing,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- considerate,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- designing,
- devious,
- discreet,
- disingenuous,
- enumerative,
- estimating,
- estimative,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intriguing,
- knowing,
- manipulative,
- numerative,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- quantifying,
- safe,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaky,
- statistical,
- stratagemical,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- wary,
- wily
- furtive
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- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" related words >
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- conspiratorial,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under the table,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- untrustworthy,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
- ambidextrous
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- marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
- equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon" related words >
- Janus-like,
- Machiavellian,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- all-around,
- ambidexter,
- ambidextral,
- amphibious,
- artful,
- bifacial,
- bifold,
- biform,
- bilateral,
- binary,
- binate,
- biparous,
- bivalent,
- conduplicate,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- dextrosinistral,
- dishonest,
- disomatous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- dual,
- duple,
- duplex,
- duplicate,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- flexible,
- geminate,
- geminated,
- generally capable,
- hypocritical,
- left-handed,
- many-sided,
- mobile,
- perfidious,
- resourceful,
- second,
- secondary,
- shifty,
- sinistrodextral,
- slippery,
- supple,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- twin,
- twinned,
- two-faced,
- two-handed,
- two-level,
- two-ply,
- two-sided,
- two-story,
- twofold,
- versatile
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- concealed,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on the sly,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- veiled,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
- unscrupulous
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- without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power" related words >
- amoral,
- artful,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disingenuous,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- evil,
- faithless,
- false,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- improper,
- inaccurate,
- indirect,
- inexact,
- insidious,
- knavish,
- mercenary,
- not kosher,
- perfidious,
- questionable,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaky,
- stick-at-nothing,
- suspicious,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- uncritical,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unexacting,
- unfinical,
- unfussy,
- unmeticulous,
- unpainstaking,
- unparticular,
- unprecise,
- unprincipled,
- unpunctilious,
- unpunctual,
- unrigorous,
- unsavory,
- unseemly,
- unstraightforward,
- untrustworthy,
- venal,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wrongful
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- apparently sound,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- canny,
- casuistic,
- clever,
- colorable,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- feline,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- hollow,
- illusive,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- jesuitic,
- knowing,
- mealymouthed,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- pawky,
- philosophicojuristic,
- philosophicoreligious,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistic,
- specious,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tongue in cheek,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncandid,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- abomination,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- baseness,
- blind,
- chicanery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- degradation,
- design,
- device,
- disgrace,
- dodge,
- error,
- evil,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- infamy,
- iniquity,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- knavishness,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- moral turpitude,
- move,
- obliquity,
- peccancy,
- plot,
- ploy,
- racket,
- rascality,
- rascalry,
- red herring,
- reprobacy,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scampishness,
- scandal,
- scheme,
- scoundrelism,
- shame,
- shift,
- sin,
- sleight,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- trick,
- trickery,
- turpitude,
- vileness,
- villainousness,
- villainy,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wrong
- delinquent
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- a young offender
- past due; not paid at the scheduled time; "an overdue installment"; "a delinquent account"
- persistently bad; "school for delinquent boys"
- guilty of a minor misdeed; "delinquent minors" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- atrocious,
- bad person,
- behindhand,
- careless,
- criminal,
- crook,
- culprit,
- deceiver,
- defaulter,
- defaulting,
- derelict,
- deviant,
- disgraceful,
- disregardful,
- evil,
- evil man,
- evil person,
- evildoer,
- failing,
- felon,
- gangster,
- hardly the thing,
- hooligan,
- ignominious,
- illegal,
- improper,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- infamous,
- late,
- lawbreaker,
- lax,
- levanter,
- malefactor,
- malevolent,
- malfeasant,
- malfeasor,
- miscreant,
- misdemeanant,
- misdemeanist,
- misfeasor,
- mobster,
- neglectful,
- negligent,
- nonpayer,
- nonpaying,
- not done,
- not the thing,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- offender,
- out-of-line,
- outlaw,
- overdue,
- past due,
- public enemy,
- racketeer,
- regardless,
- remiss,
- roughneck,
- ruffian,
- sacrilegious,
- scandalous,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- sinful,
- sinner,
- slack,
- tax dodger,
- tax evader,
- terrible,
- thief,
- transgressor,
- undue,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unlawful,
- unpaid,
- unrighteous,
- unseemly,
- unsuitable,
- villain,
- welsher,
- wicked,
- worker of ill,
- wrong,
- wrongdoer,
- wrongful
- contraceptive
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- an agent or device intended to prevent conception
- capable of preventing conception or impregnation; "contraceptive devices and medications" related words >
- IUD,
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- backstop,
- bag,
- birth control device,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- condom,
- contraceptive foam,
- copyright,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- diaphragm,
- dodger,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- intrauterine device,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- oral contraceptive,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- patent,
- pessary,
- pilot,
- preventive,
- prophylactic,
- protective clothing,
- protective umbrella,
- rubber,
- safeguard,
- safety,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- screen,
- seat belt,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- skin,
- spermicidal jelly,
- spermicide,
- sun helmet,
- the pill,
- umbrella,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- safety
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- a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line
- a safe place; "He ran to safety"
- the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions; "insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk" related words >
- aegis,
- arm guard,
- assurance,
- backstop,
- buffer,
- bulwark,
- bumper,
- contraceptive,
- copyright,
- cover,
- crash helmet,
- cushion,
- dashboard,
- defense,
- dodger,
- eye,
- face mask,
- fender,
- finger guard,
- foot guard,
- fuse,
- goggles,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardrail,
- hand guard,
- handrail,
- hard hat,
- helmet,
- impregnability,
- insulation,
- interlock,
- inviolability,
- invulnerability,
- knee guard,
- knuckle guard,
- laminated glass,
- lee,
- life preserver,
- lifeline,
- lightning conductor,
- lightning rod,
- mask,
- mudguard,
- nose guard,
- pad,
- padding,
- palladium,
- patent,
- pilot,
- preservation,
- preventive,
- prophylactic,
- protection,
- protective clothing,
- protective custody,
- protective umbrella,
- refuge,
- safeguard,
- safekeeping,
- safeness,
- safety glass,
- safety plug,
- safety rail,
- safety shoes,
- safety switch,
- safety valve,
- sanctuary,
- screen,
- seat belt,
- security,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shin guard,
- sun helmet,
- umbrella,
- watchful eye,
- windscreen,
- windshield
- downy
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- covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
- like down or as soft as down related words >
- airy,
- artful,
- astute,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- bubbly,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- dainty,
- deep,
- delicate,
- ethereal,
- even,
- feathery,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flat,
- fleecy,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foamy,
- frothy,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- glabrate,
- glabrescent,
- glabrous,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- guileful,
- hirsute,
- imponderous,
- insidious,
- lanate,
- leger,
- leiotrichous,
- level,
- light,
- light as air,
- lighter than vanity,
- mousse,
- nappy,
- peachy,
- pinnate,
- plane,
- pubescent,
- refined,
- regular,
- satin,
- satiny,
- silky,
- sly,
- smooth,
- smooth-shaven,
- smooth-textured,
- souffle,
- suave,
- thin-spun,
- tricky,
- unbroken,
- unheavy,
- uniform,
- unrough,
- unroughened,
- unruffled,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- volatile,
- weightless,
- wily,
- wiredrawn,
- woolly,
- yeasty
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