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- astute
collapse - marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- alert,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- arch,
- argute,
- artful,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- clever,
- cogent,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- feline,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- heady,
- incisive,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- inventive,
- judicious,
- keen,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- longheaded,
- longsighted,
- observant,
- pawky,
- penetrating,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perspicuous,
- piercing,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- quick,
- quick-witted,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- sagacious,
- sage,
- savvy,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- trenchant,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- understanding,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- wise
- designing
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- concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- abstract art,
- acute,
- arch,
- art,
- art form,
- artful,
- artist,
- arts and crafts,
- arts of design,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- calligraphy,
- canny,
- cave art,
- ceramics,
- clever,
- collusive,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- decoration,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- design,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- double-dealing,
- engraving,
- etching,
- feline,
- fine arts,
- folk art,
- foxy,
- graphic arts,
- guileful,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- intriguing,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- photography,
- plastic art,
- plotting,
- politic,
- primitive art,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- sculpture,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- stratagemical,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- the arts,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- underhanded,
- up to,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- cute
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- obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" related words >
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adept,
- adorable,
- adroit,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artistic,
- astute,
- attractive,
- authoritative,
- beautiful,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- cagey,
- canny,
- clean,
- clever,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- daedal,
- dainty,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- delicate,
- designing,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- feline,
- foxy,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- handy,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lovely,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mignon,
- neat,
- no mean,
- pawky,
- politic,
- pretty,
- professional,
- proficient,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skillful,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- some,
- sophistical,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- virtuoso,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- well-done,
- wily,
- workmanlike
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adulterated,
- air-built,
- airy,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chimerical,
- clever,
- cloud-built,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cut,
- cute,
- dainty,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- delicate,
- designing,
- devious,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- diplomatic,
- dreamlike,
- ethereal,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feline,
- fine,
- flimsy,
- foxy,
- gaseous,
- gossamery,
- guileful,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insubstantial,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- phantomlike,
- politic,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shadowy,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slight,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- spirituous,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- wily,
- windy
- artful
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- marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- facile,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- oily,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- suave,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- covert,
- crafty,
- creep,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- downy,
- feline,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- gumshoe,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lurk,
- masterful,
- pawky,
- politic,
- predatory,
- privy,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skulk,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slide,
- slim,
- slink,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snake,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- snook,
- sophistical,
- steal,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unobtrusive,
- unscrupulous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- canny,
- catlike,
- catty,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- closet,
- covert,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- doggo,
- feline,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lurking,
- noiseless,
- on tiptoe,
- pawky,
- politic,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- silent,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneak,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealing,
- stealthful,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- vulpine,
- waiting concealed,
- wary,
- wily
- resourceful
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- having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; "someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations"; "an able and resourceful politician"; "the most resourceful cook in town" related words >
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adaptable,
- adept,
- adjustable,
- adroit,
- all-around,
- ambidextrous,
- amphibious,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artistic,
- astute,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- cagey,
- canny,
- clean,
- clever,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- creative,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- designing,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- feline,
- flexible,
- foxy,
- generally capable,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- handy,
- imaginative,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- magisterial,
- many-sided,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- neat,
- no mean,
- pawky,
- politic,
- professional,
- proficient,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skillful,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- some,
- sophistical,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-handed,
- versatile,
- virtuoso,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- well-done,
- wily,
- workmanlike
- deceitful
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- intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- collusive,
- counterfeit,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hypocritical,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knavish,
- knowing,
- lying,
- mendacious,
- misleading,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- roguish,
- 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,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- dishonest
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- deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
- lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable related words >
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- artful,
- bent,
- casuistic,
- cheating,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- cronk,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defrauding,
- devious,
- dishonorable,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- fake,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- questionable,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- snide,
- suspicious,
- swindling,
- thieving,
- thievish,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfair,
- unfrank,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unserious,
- unstraightforward,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- insidious
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- working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
- intended to entrap
- beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- amoral,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dangerous,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gradual,
- guileful,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- not kosher,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- politic,
- questionable,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sinister,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Scotch,
- acute,
- adroit,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- conserving,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deliberate,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- feline,
- forehanded,
- foxy,
- frugal,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- heedful,
- hep,
- hesitant,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- judicious,
- knowing,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- money-saving,
- nimble-witted,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- parsimonious,
- pawky,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- quick,
- quick-witted,
- ready,
- regardful,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- saving,
- scheming,
- scrimping,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- sharp-witted,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skimping,
- slick,
- slim,
- slippery,
- slow to act,
- sly,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artistic,
- astute,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- bright,
- brilliant,
- cagey,
- canny,
- clean,
- clever,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- creative,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- demiurgic,
- designing,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- esemplastic,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- fecund,
- feline,
- fertile,
- foxy,
- germinal,
- gifted,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- handy,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- innovational,
- innovative,
- insidious,
- inspired,
- inventive,
- keen,
- knowing,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- neat,
- no mean,
- notional,
- on the ball,
- original,
- originative,
- pawky,
- politic,
- pregnant,
- productive,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prolific,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- seminal,
- serpentine,
- shaping,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skilled,
- skillful,
- slick,
- slim,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- some,
- sophistical,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- talented,
- teeming,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- virtuoso,
- visioned,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- well-done,
- wily,
- workmanlike
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- acute,
- antenatal,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- autochthonous,
- beginning,
- budding,
- cagey,
- canny,
- causative,
- clever,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- constructive,
- crafty,
- creative,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- demiurgic,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- esemplastic,
- fecund,
- feline,
- fertile,
- fetal,
- formative,
- foundational,
- foxy,
- fruitful,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- guileful,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- ingenious,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- innovational,
- innovative,
- insidious,
- inspired,
- introductory,
- knowing,
- nascent,
- natal,
- notional,
- original,
- originative,
- parturient,
- pawky,
- politic,
- postnatal,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- procreative,
- productive,
- prolific,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- scheming,
- seminal,
- serpentine,
- shaping,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- teeming,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- ur,
- visioned,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- swindler
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- a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud related words >
- Artful Dodger,
- Judas,
- Philadelphia lawyer,
- Yankee horse trader,
- betrayer,
- blackleg,
- body snatcher,
- booster,
- bunco steerer,
- charlatan,
- charmer,
- cheat,
- cheater,
- chicken thief,
- chiseler,
- come-on,
- con man,
- confidence man,
- convict,
- cozener,
- crafty rascal,
- criminal,
- crook,
- deceiver,
- defrauder,
- den of thieves,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- diddler,
- dodger,
- double-dealer,
- embezzler,
- felon,
- filcher,
- flimflam man,
- flimflammer,
- fox,
- fraud,
- fugitive,
- gallows bird,
- ganef,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- ghoul,
- glib tongue,
- grafter,
- grave robber,
- gyp artist,
- gypper,
- hoaxer,
- horse trader,
- jailbird,
- jewel thief,
- juggler,
- knave,
- land pirate,
- land shark,
- land-grabber,
- larcener,
- larcenist,
- lawbreaker,
- lifter,
- mobster,
- mountebank,
- outlaw,
- peculator,
- petty thief,
- pilferer,
- poacher,
- prowler,
- public enemy,
- purloiner,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- reynard,
- robber,
- scofflaw,
- scoundrel,
- scrounger,
- sharper,
- shoplifter,
- shyster,
- slick citizen,
- sly dog,
- slyboots,
- sneak thief,
- stealer,
- sweet talker,
- thief,
- thug,
- traitor,
- trickster,
- two-timer,
- villain,
- white-collar thief
- diplomatic
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- skilled in dealing with sensitive matters or people
- relating to or characteristic of diplomacy; "diplomatic immunity" related words >
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- ambassadorial,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artistic,
- astute,
- authoritative,
- bland,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- cagey,
- canny,
- civic,
- clean,
- clever,
- consular,
- coordinated,
- courteous,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- delicate,
- designing,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- feline,
- foxy,
- geopolitical,
- good,
- goodish,
- governmental,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- handy,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- ministerial,
- neat,
- no mean,
- pawky,
- perceptive,
- perspicacious,
- plenipotentiary,
- polite,
- politic,
- political,
- politico-commercial,
- politico-diplomatic,
- politico-economic,
- politico-geographical,
- politico-judicial,
- politico-military,
- politico-moral,
- politico-religious,
- politico-scientific,
- politico-social,
- politico-theological,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prudent,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skillful,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- some,
- sophistical,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- suffragist,
- supple,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thoughtful,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- virtuoso,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- well-done,
- wily,
- wise,
- workmanlike
- insincere
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- lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- ambidextrous,
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- artificial,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- calculating,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- colorable,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- evasive,
- fair-spoken,
- faithless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- gushing,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- lying,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- pharisaic,
- philosophistic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- plausible,
- pretentious,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- scheming,
- self-righteous,
- shifty,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- sly,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stagy,
- sycophantic,
- theatrical,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wheedling,
- wily
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Titian,
- acute,
- adust,
- alluring,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- attractive,
- auburn,
- bay,
- bay-colored,
- bayard,
- besmirched,
- blackened,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronze-colored,
- bronzed,
- brownish-red,
- cagey,
- cagy,
- calculating,
- canine,
- canny,
- castaneous,
- chestnut,
- chestnut-brown,
- clever,
- copper,
- copper-colored,
- coppery,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cupreous,
- cute,
- darkened,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- discolored,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- doggy,
- feline,
- ferruginous,
- foxed,
- foxlike,
- guileful,
- henna,
- ingenious,
- inky,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- liver-brown,
- liver-colored,
- livid-brown,
- lupine,
- mahogany,
- murky,
- pawky,
- plotting,
- politic,
- ready,
- reddish-brown,
- resourceful,
- roan,
- rubiginous,
- rufous,
- russet,
- russety,
- rust,
- rust-colored,
- rusty,
- scheming,
- seductive,
- serpentine,
- sexy,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smirched,
- smoky,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- soiled,
- sophistical,
- stained,
- stealthy,
- stigmatic,
- stigmatiferous,
- stigmatized,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- sunburned,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tainted,
- tarnished,
- terra-cotta,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- wise,
- wolfish
- wary
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- marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Pyrrhonic,
- Scotch,
- acute,
- agnostic,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- aux aguets,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- considerate,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- custodial,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eagle-eyed,
- feline,
- foxy,
- from Missouri,
- frugal,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- hard of belief,
- hawk-eyed,
- impervious to persuasion,
- in doubt,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- keen-eyed,
- knowing,
- leery,
- lidless,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- observant,
- on guard,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- pawky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- questioning,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- saving,
- scheming,
- scrupulous,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- sharp-eyed,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- sleepless,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- thrifty,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncertain,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- untrusting,
- unwasteful,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- vulpine,
- watchful,
- wily,
- with open eyes
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- artifice,
- astute,
- cabal,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusion,
- collusive,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiracy,
- conspiring,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deep-laid plot,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- engineering,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- frame-up,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- game,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intrigue,
- intriguing,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- nefarious,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- planning,
- plot,
- plotting,
- politic,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- put-up job,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rigged jury,
- rigging,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- serpentine,
- setup,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stacked deck,
- stealthy,
- stratagem,
- stratagemical,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trick,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underplot,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- web of intrigue,
- wily,
- wire-pulling
- indirect
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- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow"
- having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
- not as a direct effect or consequence; "indirect benefits"; "an indirect advantage" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- accessory,
- accidental,
- additional,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- ancillary,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumambient,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- collusive,
- coming,
- conscienceless,
- contingent,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- eventual,
- excursive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- final,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- incidental,
- insidious,
- labyrinthine,
- last,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- secondary,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slippery,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subordinate,
- subsidiary,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- two-faced,
- ultimate,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- feline
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- any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals many with retractile claws
- of or relating to cats; "feline fur" related words >
- Cheshire cat,
- Chinchilla cat,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Maltese cat,
- acute,
- alley cat,
- amphibian,
- aquatic,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- biped,
- blue cat,
- cagey,
- calico cat,
- canine,
- cannibal,
- canny,
- carnivore,
- cat,
- catlike,
- cattish,
- catty,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- cosmopolite,
- covert,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- felid,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- gib,
- gib-cat,
- gnawer,
- grimalkin,
- guileful,
- herbivore,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- house cat,
- hugger-mugger,
- ingenious,
- insectivore,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- invertebrate,
- kit,
- kitling,
- kitten,
- kittenish,
- kitty,
- kitty-cat,
- knowing,
- leonine,
- lionlike,
- mammal,
- mammalian,
- marsupial,
- marsupialian,
- mouser,
- omnivore,
- pawky,
- politic,
- primate,
- privy,
- puss,
- pussy,
- pussycat,
- quadruped,
- quiet,
- ready,
- reptile,
- resourceful,
- rodent,
- ruminant,
- scavenger,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- silver cat,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tabby,
- tabby cat,
- tactical,
- tiger cat,
- tigerish,
- tom,
- tomcat,
- tortoise-shell cat,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- ungulate,
- unobtrusive,
- varmint,
- vermin,
- vertebrate,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- supple
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- make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- able to adapt,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- acute,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- agile,
- all-around,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- ambidextrous,
- amphibious,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- athletic,
- bendable,
- bending,
- cagey,
- canny,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- ever-changing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fawning,
- feline,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- fluid,
- formable,
- formative,
- foxy,
- generally capable,
- giving,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- impermanent,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- ingenious,
- ingratiating,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- kaleidoscopic,
- knowing,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- moldable,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nimble,
- nonuniform,
- obliging,
- obsequious,
- pawky,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- politic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- ready,
- receptive,
- resilient,
- resourceful,
- responsive,
- rubbery,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- serpentine,
- servile,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- springy,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stretch,
- stretchy,
- submissive,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- susceptible,
- tactical,
- temporizing,
- timeserving,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- transient,
- transitory,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trimming,
- two-handed,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- wily,
- wiry,
- yielding
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- acute,
- ambagious,
- amphibian,
- anfractuous,
- anguiform,
- anguine,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- batrachian,
- cagey,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- clever,
- colubriform,
- convolutional,
- crafty,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- crocodilian,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- diplomatic,
- discursive,
- eellike,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- feline,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- foxy,
- froggy,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- knowing,
- labyrinthine,
- lizardlike,
- lumbriciform,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- ophidian,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- planetary,
- politic,
- rambling,
- ready,
- repent,
- reptant,
- reptile,
- reptilelike,
- reptilian,
- reptiliform,
- reptiloid,
- resourceful,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- saurian,
- scheming,
- serpentiform,
- serpentile,
- serpentine,
- serpentlike,
- serpentoid,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- slithering,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snake-shaped,
- snakelike,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- swerving,
- tactical,
- toadish,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vermiform,
- viperiform,
- viperish,
- viperlike,
- viperoid,
- viperous,
- vipery,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wary,
- whorled,
- wily,
- winding,
- wormlike,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- charmer
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- a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) related words >
- Artful Dodger,
- Casanova,
- Circe,
- Cleopatra,
- Don Juan,
- Euryale,
- Gorgon,
- Lorelei,
- Lothario,
- Machiavel,
- Machiavelli,
- Machiavellian,
- Medea,
- Medusa,
- Miss America,
- Parthenope,
- Philadelphia lawyer,
- Romeo,
- Siren,
- Stheno,
- Yankee horse trader,
- actor,
- bamboozler,
- bathing beauty,
- beau ideal,
- beaut,
- beauty,
- beauty contest winner,
- beauty queen,
- befuddler,
- beguiler,
- belle,
- bewitcher,
- big-time operator,
- bunny,
- con artist,
- con man,
- conjurer,
- coquette,
- counterfeiter,
- cover girl,
- crafty rascal,
- dazzler,
- deceiver,
- deluder,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- dodger,
- double-dealer,
- dream,
- duper,
- enchanter,
- enchantress,
- enticer,
- entrancer,
- faker,
- femme fatale,
- flatterer,
- flirt,
- fooler,
- forger,
- fox,
- gay deceiver,
- glib tongue,
- great beauty,
- hoaxer,
- horse trader,
- hypnotizer,
- inveigler,
- jilt,
- jilter,
- joker,
- jokester,
- kidder,
- knockout,
- lady fair,
- lady-killer,
- leg-puller,
- looker,
- mage,
- magian,
- magician,
- magus,
- mesmerizer,
- misleader,
- model,
- necromancer,
- paragon,
- peach,
- pinup,
- pinup girl,
- plagiarist,
- plagiarizer,
- playactor,
- practical joker,
- pussycat,
- ragger,
- raving beauty,
- reigning beauty,
- reynard,
- role-player,
- seducer,
- seductress,
- sex kitten,
- shyster,
- siren,
- slick chick,
- slick citizen,
- sly dog,
- slyboots,
- smoothie,
- sorcerer,
- sorceress,
- spellbinder,
- spoofer,
- stunner,
- sweet talker,
- swindler,
- tease,
- teaser,
- tempter,
- temptress,
- trickster,
- vamp,
- vampire,
- warlock,
- wizard,
- wolf
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