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- virtu
collapse - objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques)
- artistic quality
- love of or taste for fine objects of art related words >
- aesthetics,
- art,
- art object,
- artistic skill,
- artistic taste,
- artistry,
- arty-craftiness,
- brainchild,
- bric-a-brac,
- classic,
- composition,
- connoisseurship,
- creation,
- design,
- dilettantism,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- expertise,
- expertism,
- flair,
- friandise,
- gastronomy,
- grotesque,
- kitsch,
- master,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- mobile,
- museum piece,
- nude,
- old master,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- piece,
- piece of virtu,
- stabile,
- statue,
- still life,
- study,
- talent,
- virtuosity,
- work,
- work of art
- ability,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- airmanship,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artisanship,
- artistic skill,
- arty-craftiness,
- authorcraft,
- authorship,
- automatic writing,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- cacoethes scribendi,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- composition,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftsmanship,
- creative writing,
- cunning,
- deftness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- drama-writing,
- editorial-writing,
- efficiency,
- essay-writing,
- expertise,
- expository writing,
- facility,
- facility in writing,
- feature-writing,
- finesse,
- flair,
- grace,
- graphomania,
- graphorrhea,
- graphospasm,
- grip,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- inditement,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- journalism,
- know-how,
- libretto-writing,
- literary artistry,
- literary composition,
- literary power,
- literary production,
- literary talent,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- novel-writing,
- pen,
- pencraft,
- playwriting,
- practical ability,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- ready pen,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- rewriting,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- short-story writing,
- skill,
- skill with words,
- skillfulness,
- style,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- talent,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technical writing,
- technique,
- timing,
- verse-writing,
- virtu,
- virtuosity,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship,
- writing
- talent
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- a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity related words >
- Geist,
- Muse,
- ability,
- ableness,
- acuity,
- acuteness,
- adequacy,
- adroitness,
- afflatus,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- art,
- artistic skill,
- artistry,
- arty-craftiness,
- bent,
- braininess,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- bump,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capableness,
- capacity,
- child prodigy,
- clear thinking,
- cleverness,
- competence,
- craft,
- creative thought,
- creativity,
- daemon,
- daimonion,
- demon,
- dexterity,
- divine afflatus,
- dower,
- dowry,
- efficacy,
- efficiency,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- esprit,
- expertise,
- facility,
- faculty,
- fire of genius,
- fitness,
- flair,
- forte,
- genius,
- gift,
- gifted child,
- gifted person,
- giftedness,
- gifts,
- inclination,
- ingenuity,
- inspiration,
- instinct,
- intellectual genius,
- intellectual prodigy,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- knack,
- long suit,
- makings,
- man of parts,
- mental alertness,
- mental genius,
- mental giant,
- mercurial mind,
- metier,
- native cleverness,
- natural,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- nimble mind,
- nimble-wittedness,
- nimbleness,
- nose,
- nous,
- parts,
- penchant,
- potential,
- power,
- powers,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- proclivity,
- prodigy,
- proficiency,
- propensity,
- qualification,
- quick parts,
- quick thinking,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- ready wit,
- savvy,
- set,
- sharp-wittedness,
- sharpness,
- skill,
- smartness,
- smarts,
- soul,
- speciality,
- spirit,
- sprightly wit,
- strength,
- strong flair,
- strong point,
- sufficiency,
- susceptibility,
- talents,
- tendency,
- the goods,
- the stuff,
- turn,
- virtu,
- what it takes
- artfulness,
- craftiness,
- deceitfulness,
- dishonesty,
- disingenuousness,
- doubtfulness,
- falseheartedness,
- falsehood,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- implausibility,
- inconceivability,
- incredibility,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- lying,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- mythomania,
- perjury,
- pseudology,
- questionableness,
- sharp practice,
- truthlessness,
- unbelievability,
- unbelievableness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- unreliability,
- unsincereness,
- untenableness,
- untruthfulness,
- unveraciousness
- flair
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- a natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating" related words >
- ability,
- ableness,
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- adequacy,
- adroitness,
- an ear for,
- an eye for,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- art,
- artistic skill,
- artistry,
- arty-craftiness,
- bent,
- blazon,
- braininess,
- bravura,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- brilliancy,
- bump,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capableness,
- capacity,
- capacity for,
- chic,
- clear thinking,
- cleverness,
- competence,
- critical discernment,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstration,
- dexterity,
- discernment,
- display,
- dower,
- dowry,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- efficacy,
- efficiency,
- elan,
- elegance,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- esprit,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facility,
- faculty,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- feel,
- felicity,
- figure,
- fitness,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- forte,
- genius,
- genius for,
- gift,
- gift for,
- giftedness,
- gifts,
- glamor,
- head,
- histrionics,
- inclination,
- innate aptitude,
- insight,
- instinct,
- judgment,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- knack,
- leaning,
- long suit,
- makings,
- manifestation,
- mental alertness,
- mercurial mind,
- metier,
- mind,
- native cleverness,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- nimble mind,
- nimble-wittedness,
- nimbleness,
- nous,
- oomph,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- panache,
- parade,
- parts,
- penetration,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- perspicacity,
- pizzazz,
- potential,
- power,
- powers,
- proclivity,
- proficiency,
- propensity,
- qualification,
- quick parts,
- quick thinking,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- ready wit,
- savvy,
- sham,
- sharp-wittedness,
- sharpness,
- show,
- showing-off,
- skill,
- smartness,
- smarts,
- sparkle,
- speciality,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- sprightly wit,
- staginess,
- strong flair,
- strong point,
- style,
- stylishness,
- sufficiency,
- susceptibility,
- talent,
- talents,
- taste,
- tendency,
- the goods,
- the stuff,
- theatrics,
- turn,
- turn for,
- vaunt,
- verve,
- virtu,
- vitality,
- what it takes
- aesthetic
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- (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"
- concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; "the aesthetic faculties"; "an aesthetic person"; "aesthetic feeling"; "the illustrations made the book an aesthetic success"
- aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
- relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics; "aesthetic values" related words >
- Attic,
- aesthetically appealing,
- art-conscious,
- artistic,
- arty,
- attractive,
- beauteous,
- beautiful,
- chaste,
- choice,
- classic,
- cultivated,
- discriminating,
- elegant,
- endowed with beauty,
- excellent,
- exquisite,
- eye-filling,
- fine,
- flowerlike,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- handsome,
- heavy,
- in good taste,
- lovely,
- of choice,
- of consummate art,
- of quality,
- ornamental,
- painterly,
- pleasing,
- pretty,
- pulchritudinous,
- pure,
- quiet,
- refined,
- restrained,
- sensitive,
- simple,
- subdued,
- tasteful,
- unaffected,
- understated,
- unobtrusive,
- well-chosen
- perjury
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- criminal offense of making false statements under oath related words >
- artfulness,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- equivocation,
- exaggeration,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falseheartedness,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- lying,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- perversion,
- prevarication,
- sharp practice,
- straining,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness
- beautiful
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- aesthetically pleasing
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"
- (of weather) highly enjoyable; "what a beautiful day" related words >
- admirable,
- aesthetic,
- aesthetically appealing,
- alluring,
- appealing,
- art-conscious,
- artistic,
- arty,
- attractive,
- beauteous,
- bonny,
- charming,
- choice,
- comely,
- delightful,
- elegant,
- endowed with beauty,
- excellent,
- exquisite,
- eye-filling,
- fair,
- fine,
- first-rate,
- flowerlike,
- glorious,
- good-looking,
- gorgeous,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- handsome,
- hear,
- heavy,
- incomparable,
- lovely,
- magnificent,
- of consummate art,
- ornamental,
- painterly,
- personable,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pretty,
- proper,
- pulchritudinous,
- radiant,
- resplendent,
- smashing,
- spectacular,
- splendid,
- stunning,
- sublime,
- superb,
- superior,
- tasteful,
- well done,
- well-favored,
- wonderful
- gamesmanship
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- the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game related words >
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- cleverness,
- competition,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- cutthroat competition,
- emulation,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- jockeying,
- lifemanship,
- one-upmanship,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- rivalry,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- trickiness,
- vying,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- artistic
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- satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities; "artistic workmanship"
- relating to or characteristic of art or artists; "his artistic background" related words >
- Attic,
- Daedalian,
- adept,
- adroit,
- aesthetic,
- apt,
- art-conscious,
- arty,
- authoritative,
- beautiful,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- chaste,
- choice,
- classic,
- clean,
- clever,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deft,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- handy,
- in good taste,
- ingenious,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- neat,
- no mean,
- of choice,
- of consummate art,
- of quality,
- ornamental,
- painterly,
- pleasing,
- politic,
- professional,
- proficient,
- pure,
- quick,
- quiet,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- restrained,
- simple,
- skillful,
- slick,
- some,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- subdued,
- tactful,
- tasteful,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- unaffected,
- understated,
- unobtrusive,
- virtuoso,
- well-chosen,
- well-done,
- workmanlike
- overblown
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- past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses" related words >
- arty,
- aureate,
- big,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- bursting,
- choked,
- congested,
- corpulent,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- declamatory,
- distended,
- drenched,
- dropsical,
- euphuistic,
- fat,
- filled to overflowing,
- flatulent,
- fleshy,
- flowery,
- glutted,
- gorged,
- grandiloquent,
- gross,
- heavy,
- hyperemic,
- imposing,
- in spate,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- magniloquent,
- obese,
- oratorical,
- over the hill,
- overburdened,
- overcharged,
- overfed,
- overflowing,
- overfraught,
- overfreighted,
- overfull,
- overladen,
- overloaded,
- overripe,
- overstocked,
- overstuffed,
- oversupplied,
- overweight,
- overweighted,
- packed,
- plethoric,
- portly,
- ready to burst,
- running over,
- satiated,
- saturated,
- soaked,
- sonorous,
- stout,
- stuffed,
- stuffed up,
- supercharged,
- supersaturated,
- surcharged,
- surfeited,
- swollen,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- windy
- tasteful
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- having or showing or conforming to good taste related words >
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- aesthetic,
- appetizing,
- art-conscious,
- artistic,
- arty,
- beautiful,
- charming,
- chaste,
- choice,
- classic,
- clear,
- comme il faut,
- correct,
- cultivated,
- decorous,
- direct,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- easy,
- elegant,
- excellent,
- fastidious,
- finished,
- fit,
- fitting,
- flavorsome,
- good-tasting,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- harmonious,
- in good taste,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mouth-watering,
- natural,
- neat,
- of choice,
- of consummate art,
- of quality,
- ornamental,
- painterly,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- pleasing,
- polished,
- polite,
- proper,
- pure,
- quiet,
- refined,
- relishing,
- restrained,
- rich,
- round,
- sapid,
- savory,
- simple,
- straightforward,
- subdued,
- tactful,
- tasty,
- terse,
- toothsome,
- trim,
- unaffected,
- understated,
- unlabored,
- unobtrusive,
- well-chosen
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dissemblance,
- dissimulation,
- duplicity,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- furtiveness,
- gamesmanship,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- one-upmanship,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- underhandedness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- shrewdness
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- intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) related words >
- Italian hand,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- discernment,
- discrimination,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- gamesmanship,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- keenness,
- low cunning,
- one-upmanship,
- pawkiness,
- penetration,
- percipience,
- perspicacity,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- trickiness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- art
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- the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
- the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
- a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art" related words >
- American,
- Art Nouveau,
- Ashcan school,
- Barbizon,
- Bauhaus,
- Bolognese,
- British,
- Cobra,
- Dadaism,
- Dutch,
- Fauvism,
- Flemish,
- Fontainebleau,
- French,
- Gothicism,
- Italian,
- Italian hand,
- Mannerist,
- Milanese,
- Modenese,
- Momentum,
- Neapolitan,
- New York,
- Paduan,
- Parisian,
- Phases,
- Pre-Raphaelite,
- Raphaelite,
- Reflex,
- Restany,
- Roman,
- Scottish,
- Sienese,
- Spur,
- Suprematism,
- The Ten,
- Tuscan,
- Umbrian,
- Venetian,
- Washington,
- abstract expressionism,
- abstractionism,
- academic discipline,
- academic specialty,
- action painting,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adroitness,
- alphabet,
- applied science,
- area,
- arena,
- art nouveau,
- art schools,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artistic skill,
- artistry,
- arty-craftiness,
- astuteness,
- baroque,
- blind,
- blueprint,
- business,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- calling,
- canniness,
- capability,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- chart,
- chicanery,
- choreography,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- cleverness,
- cloisonnism,
- competence,
- conceptual art,
- concern,
- conspiracy,
- constructivism,
- contrivance,
- conventional representation,
- conventionalism,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cubism,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- cute trick,
- dance notation,
- deceit,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- department of knowledge,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- design,
- device,
- dexterity,
- diagram,
- discipline,
- dodge,
- domain,
- drama,
- drawing,
- earth art,
- eclectic,
- elementarism,
- exemplification,
- existentialism,
- expedient,
- expertise,
- expressionism,
- fakement,
- feel,
- feint,
- fetch,
- field,
- field of inquiry,
- field of study,
- figuration,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- flair,
- foxiness,
- free abstraction,
- futurism,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- groups,
- guile,
- hallucinatory painting,
- handicraft,
- handiness,
- hang,
- hieroglyphic,
- iconography,
- idealism,
- ideogram,
- illustration,
- imagery,
- imaging,
- impressionism,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- intimism,
- intrigue,
- intuitionism,
- inventiveness,
- jugglery,
- kinetic art,
- knack,
- knavery,
- know-how,
- letter,
- lifework,
- limning,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- linear chromatism,
- little game,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- maneuver,
- map,
- matter painting,
- mechanics,
- mechanism,
- method,
- metier,
- minimal art,
- mission,
- modernism,
- move,
- musical notation,
- mystery,
- mysticism,
- natural science,
- naturalism,
- neoclassicism,
- neoconcrete art,
- neoconstructivism,
- nonobjectivism,
- notation,
- nuagism,
- number,
- occupation,
- ology,
- one-upmanship,
- op art,
- photomontage,
- pictogram,
- picturization,
- plan,
- plein-air,
- plot,
- ploy,
- poetic realism,
- poetic tachism,
- pointillism,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- postexpressionism,
- practice,
- prefigurement,
- preimpressionism,
- presentment,
- primitivism,
- printing,
- profession,
- proficiency,
- projection,
- province,
- pure science,
- purism,
- pursuit,
- quietistic painting,
- racket,
- readiness,
- realism,
- realization,
- red herring,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- representationalism,
- representationism,
- resourcefulness,
- romanticism,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- savvy,
- schema,
- scheme,
- science,
- score,
- script,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- sleight,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- social science,
- sophistry,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- sphere,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- study,
- subterfuge,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- suprematism,
- surrealism,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- synchromism,
- synthesism,
- tablature,
- tachism,
- tactic,
- talent,
- technic,
- technical know-how,
- technical knowledge,
- technical skill,
- technicology,
- technics,
- technique,
- technology,
- touch,
- trade,
- traditionalism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- unism,
- virtu,
- vocation,
- vorticism,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- wariness,
- way,
- wile,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wit,
- work,
- writing
- stealth
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- avoiding detection by moving carefully related words >
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- clandestine behavior,
- clandestineness,
- clandestinity,
- cleverness,
- covertness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- furtiveness,
- gamesmanship,
- guile,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- one-upmanship,
- prowl,
- prowling,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- secrecy,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slinkiness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stalking,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- trickiness,
- underground activity,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- inventiveness
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- the power of creative imagination related words >
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- authenticity,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- fecundity,
- fertile mind,
- fertility,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- freshness,
- gamesmanship,
- guile,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- innovation,
- insidiousness,
- invention,
- newness,
- nonimitation,
- novelty,
- one-upmanship,
- originality,
- pregnant imagination,
- productivity,
- prolificacy,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- teeming imagination,
- trickiness,
- uniqueness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- Italian hand,
- accomplishment,
- acuteness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- ascendancy,
- astuteness,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- cleverness,
- competition,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- cutthroat competition,
- deanship,
- emulation,
- excellence,
- favor,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- gamesmanship,
- greatness,
- guile,
- incomparability,
- ingeniousness,
- inimitability,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- jockeying,
- lead,
- lifemanship,
- majority,
- precedence,
- predominance,
- predomination,
- preeminence,
- preponderance,
- prepotence,
- prepotency,
- prerogative,
- prestige,
- priority,
- privilege,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- right-of-way,
- rivalry,
- satanic cunning,
- seniority,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- success,
- superiority,
- suppleness,
- transcendence,
- transcendency,
- trickiness,
- virtuosity,
- vying,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- pretentious
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- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- artificial,
- arty,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- feigned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- put-on,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- studied,
- superficial,
- swank,
- swollen,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- utopian,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting,
- visionary,
- windy
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- con,
- con game,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cute trick,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- defrauding,
- design,
- device,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feint,
- fetch,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- guile,
- gyp,
- hanky-panky,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- misrepresentation,
- monkey business,
- move,
- overreaching,
- plot,
- ploy,
- racket,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scam,
- scheme,
- sell,
- sham,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- sleight,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- surreptitiousness,
- swindle,
- tactic,
- trapping,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- underhandedness,
- wile,
- wily device
- Babylonian,
- Corinthian,
- adipose,
- aristocratic,
- arty,
- august,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- baronial,
- beefy,
- big,
- big-bellied,
- bloated,
- blowzy,
- bosomy,
- brawny,
- burly,
- buxom,
- chubby,
- chunky,
- commanding,
- corpulent,
- courtly,
- deluxe,
- dignified,
- distended,
- dumpy,
- earnest,
- effective,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fat,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fattish,
- fine,
- fleshy,
- formidable,
- full,
- glorious,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- grave,
- gross,
- heavy,
- heavyset,
- hefty,
- high,
- hippy,
- imperial,
- impressive,
- kingly,
- lordly,
- lusty,
- luxurious,
- magisterial,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- meaty,
- moving,
- noble,
- obese,
- overblown,
- overweight,
- palatial,
- paunchy,
- plump,
- plush,
- podgy,
- portentous,
- portly,
- posh,
- potbellied,
- princely,
- proud,
- pudgy,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- queenly,
- regal,
- ritzy,
- roly-poly,
- rotund,
- royal,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- solemn,
- sounding,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- square,
- squat,
- squatty,
- stalwart,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- stocky,
- stout,
- strapping,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- swollen,
- thick-bodied,
- thickset,
- top-heavy,
- tubby,
- venerable,
- weighty,
- well-fed,
- worthy
- artless
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- simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance"
- (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
- showing lack of art; "an artless translation" related words >
- aboveboard,
- arty,
- awkward,
- befoolable,
- big,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- born yesterday,
- broad,
- brusque,
- bungling,
- candid,
- childlike,
- clumsy,
- confiding,
- crude,
- direct,
- downright,
- explicit,
- foolable,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- green,
- guileless,
- gullible,
- half-assed,
- heart-to-heart,
- high-sounding,
- honest,
- humble,
- imposing,
- in the raw,
- inadept,
- inapt,
- inartificial,
- inattentive,
- incompetent,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexperienced,
- inexpert,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- mediocre,
- naive,
- native,
- natural,
- on the level,
- open,
- openhearted,
- ordinary,
- outspoken,
- overblown,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- poor,
- primitive,
- pristine,
- relaxed,
- round,
- simple,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- skill-less,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- thoughtless,
- transparent,
- true,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- unaffected,
- unapt,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- unchecked,
- uncomplicated,
- unconstrained,
- undeceptive,
- undeft,
- undexterous,
- undextrous,
- unequivocal,
- unfacile,
- unguarded,
- unintelligent,
- unpretentious,
- unproficient,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unschooled,
- unskilled,
- unskillful,
- unsophisticated,
- unstudied,
- unsullied,
- unsuspicious,
- untalented,
- untouched,
- unwary,
- virgin,
- virginal
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- austerity,
- austerity program,
- cageyness,
- calculation,
- callidity,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- chariness,
- circumspection,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- deviousness,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- false economy,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forehandedness,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- foxiness,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- gamesmanship,
- gingerliness,
- good management,
- guardedness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitation,
- husbandry,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- inventiveness,
- judiciousness,
- low cunning,
- management,
- mindfulness,
- one-upmanship,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pawkiness,
- precaution,
- prior consultation,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- prudentialness,
- readiness,
- regardfulness,
- resourcefulness,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slowness to act,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solicitude,
- sophistry,
- sparingness,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- tentativeness,
- thoroughness,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- trickiness,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unprecipitateness,
- unwastefulness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- insincerity
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- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical related words >
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent soundness,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- circularity,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- crossed fingers,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- emptiness,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- facade,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- flattering tongue,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- front,
- goody-goodiness,
- gush,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- intrigue,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mere show,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- mummery,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oiliness,
- oversubtlety,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- philosophism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rationalization,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- slobber,
- smarm,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- subtlety,
- that flattering unction,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning
- trickery
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- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way related words >
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- bravery,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- collusion,
- conjuration,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- escamotage,
- evasiveness,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- festoons,
- fetch,
- finery,
- flippancy,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- frivolity,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gambit,
- game,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gimmick,
- gingerbread,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hocus-pocus,
- hokey-pokey,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jiggery-pokery,
- jugglery,
- juggling,
- knavery,
- legerdemain,
- levity,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- merriment,
- monkey business,
- move,
- mumbo jumbo,
- paste,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- pinchbeck,
- playfulness,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prankishness,
- pranksomeness,
- prestidigitation,
- racket,
- red herring,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- slyness,
- sportiveness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- superfluity,
- swindling,
- tactic,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- trumpery,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- waggery,
- waggishness,
- wile,
- wily device
- artfulness
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- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage related words >
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- ability,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airmanship,
- animal cunning,
- art,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- craftsmanship,
- credibility gap,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deftness,
- deviousness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- disingenuousness,
- duplicity,
- efficiency,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expertise,
- facility,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- forswearing,
- foxiness,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gamesmanship,
- grace,
- grip,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- know-how,
- low cunning,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- one-upmanship,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pawkiness,
- perjury,
- practical ability,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretentiousness,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- purism,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- slickness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- style,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- surreptitiousness,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underhandedness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- virtuosity,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- Italian hand,
- Machiavellianism,
- acuteness,
- allure,
- ambidexterity,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- beguile,
- bestow,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- captivate,
- catch,
- charm,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cleverness,
- consecrate to,
- conspiracy,
- consume,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dedicate to,
- design,
- device,
- devote,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- draw,
- duplicity,
- employ,
- enchant,
- expedient,
- expend,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fascinate,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- fleet,
- foxiness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- give over to,
- give to,
- googly,
- grift,
- guile,
- hocus-pocus,
- improbity,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- low cunning,
- magnetize,
- maneuver,
- move,
- one-upmanship,
- pass,
- plot,
- ploy,
- put in,
- racket,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- resourcefulness,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- spend,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- tactic,
- take,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- two-facedness,
- use up,
- wariness,
- while,
- while away,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wit
- big
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- conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
- given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
- generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
- marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
- significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
- loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
- feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
- in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
- on a grand scale; "think big"
- extremely well; "his performance went over big" related words >
- adult,
- aggrandized,
- ample,
- apotheosized,
- arrogant,
- arty,
- awash,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awfully,
- beatified,
- benevolent,
- big boy,
- big cheese,
- big noise,
- big shot,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- big-time,
- bighearted,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- bombastic,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- bull,
- bumper,
- canonized,
- capacious,
- chivalrous,
- chock-full,
- cloyed,
- clumsy,
- commodious,
- comprehensive,
- condescending,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- considerate,
- copious,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- damned,
- deified,
- distended,
- domineering,
- double-barreled,
- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- extremely,
- fat,
- flushed,
- full to bursting,
- gassy,
- generous,
- glorified,
- glutted,
- gone,
- goodly,
- grand,
- gravid,
- great,
- great gun,
- great of heart,
- greathearted,
- greatly,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- handsome,
- haughty,
- healthy,
- heavy,
- heavyweight,
- hefty,
- held in awe,
- heroic,
- high,
- high and mighty,
- high-faluting,
- high-flown,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-powered,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hugely,
- hulking,
- husky,
- idealistic,
- immortal,
- immortalized,
- important,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- knightly,
- large,
- large-scale,
- largehearted,
- liberal,
- lion,
- lofty,
- magnanimous,
- magnified,
- major,
- man-sized,
- marriable,
- marriageable,
- material,
- mature,
- maturescent,
- meaningful,
- mighty,
- momentous,
- much,
- name,
- noble,
- noble-minded,
- nubile,
- numerous,
- of age,
- of marriageable age,
- old,
- openhanded,
- overbearing,
- overblown,
- overflowing,
- packed,
- parturient,
- patronizing,
- pretentious,
- princely,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- replete,
- roomy,
- sainted,
- sanctified,
- sated,
- satiated,
- satisfied,
- self-important,
- shrined,
- significant,
- sizable,
- spacious,
- stuck-up,
- stuffed,
- sublime,
- substantial,
- supereminent,
- superior,
- swollen,
- tall,
- throned,
- tidy,
- toplofty,
- unwieldy,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- voluminous,
- weighty,
- whacking,
- whopping,
- windy,
- world-shaking
- Italian hand,
- ability,
- acuity,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- airmanship,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- braininess,
- bravura,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- clear thinking,
- command,
- competence,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- craftsmanship,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deftness,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- docility,
- educability,
- efficiency,
- esprit,
- expertise,
- facetiousness,
- facility,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- flair,
- foxiness,
- funniness,
- gamesmanship,
- genius,
- giftedness,
- gifts,
- grace,
- grip,
- guile,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- humorousness,
- impressionability,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- intelligence,
- inventiveness,
- jocoseness,
- jocularity,
- joking,
- joshing,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- know-how,
- malleability,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- mental alertness,
- mercurial mind,
- moldability,
- motivation,
- native cleverness,
- nimble mind,
- nimble-wittedness,
- nimbleness,
- nous,
- one-upmanship,
- plasticity,
- pleasantry,
- pliability,
- practical ability,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- pungency,
- quick parts,
- quick thinking,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- ready wit,
- receptivity,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- saltiness,
- satanic cunning,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- sharp-wittedness,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- smartness,
- smarts,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- sprightly wit,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- style,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- susceptibility,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- talent,
- teachability,
- teachableness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- trainableness,
- trickiness,
- virtuosity,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- willingness,
- wit,
- wittiness,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- Italian hand,
- acuteness,
- aesthetics,
- ambiguity,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- axiology,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- cleverness,
- college of Laputa,
- corruption,
- cosmology,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- crossed fingers,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- deduction,
- deductive reasoning,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- discourse,
- discourse of reason,
- discursive reason,
- disingenuousness,
- emptiness,
- empty words,
- epistemology,
- equivocation,
- ethics,
- fallacy,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- first philosophy,
- formal fallacy,
- foxiness,
- gamesmanship,
- gnosiology,
- guile,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hysteron proteron,
- induction,
- inductive reasoning,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- inventiveness,
- jesuitry,
- logic,
- logical fallacy,
- logical thought,
- material fallacy,
- mental philosophy,
- mere rhetoric,
- metaphysics,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- misteaching,
- mockery,
- moonshine,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- one-upmanship,
- ontology,
- paralogism,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- proof,
- pseudosyllogism,
- ratiocination,
- rationalism,
- rationality,
- rationalization,
- rationalizing,
- readiness,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- reasoning,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- sweet reason,
- tergiversation,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- value theory,
- verbal fallacy,
- wariness,
- weak point,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
- intrigue
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- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- a clandestine love affair
- cause to be interested or curious related words >
- Byzantine intrigues,
- absorb,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- amor,
- amour,
- angle,
- appeal,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- attract,
- backstairs influence,
- becharm,
- beguile,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- brew,
- cabal,
- captivate,
- carry away,
- cast a spell,
- charm,
- chicanery,
- cogitate,
- collogue,
- collude,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- concoct,
- confederacy,
- connections,
- connivance,
- connive,
- conspiracy,
- conspire,
- contrivance,
- contrive,
- contriving,
- cook up,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- cuckoldry,
- cute trick,
- deals,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deep-laid plot,
- design,
- device,
- devise,
- disingenuousness,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- enchant,
- engineer,
- engineering,
- enrapture,
- enravish,
- entanglement,
- enthrall,
- entrance,
- eternal triangle,
- excite,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- fascinate,
- feint,
- fetch,
- finagle,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- flirtation,
- forbidden love,
- forswearing,
- frame,
- frame up,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- gambit,
- game,
- games,
- gerrymander,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- hypnotize,
- illicit love,
- infatuate,
- infidelity,
- influence peddling,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- intimacy,
- intrigues,
- jockey,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lay a plot,
- liaison,
- little game,
- lobbying,
- lobbyism,
- love affair,
- machinate,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulate,
- manipulation,
- mesmerize,
- move,
- operate,
- perjury,
- pique,
- play games,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- ploys,
- practice,
- pull strings,
- racket,
- red herring,
- rig,
- rigging,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- ropes,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- schemes,
- scheming,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- sleight,
- spell,
- spellbind,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- strings,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- titillate,
- transport,
- triangle,
- trick,
- trickery,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underplot,
- unfaithfulness,
- unfrankness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vamp,
- wangle,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wires,
- witch
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