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elusive
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skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
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baffling
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cagey
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elusory
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evanescent
,
evasive
,
fleeting
,
fugitive
,
impalpable
,
imponderable
,
incomprehensible
,
indefinable
,
insubstantial
,
intangible
,
malingering
,
mysterious
,
phantom
,
shifty
,
shirking
,
slippery
,
transitory
,
tricky
malingering
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evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering"
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cagey
,
clock-watching
,
dodging
,
ducking
,
elusive
,
elusory
,
evasive
,
goofing off
,
shifty
,
shirking
,
skulking
,
slacking
,
slippery
,
soldiering
,
tax dodging
,
tax evasion
,
truancy
,
welshing
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"
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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
evasive
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deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
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ambiguous
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amoral
,
bickering
,
cagey
,
captious
,
casuistic
,
caviling
,
choplogic
,
close
,
closemouthed
,
conscienceless
,
corrupt
,
corrupted
,
criminal
,
crooked
,
cunning
,
dark
,
deceitful
,
devious
,
discreet
,
dishonest
,
dishonorable
,
dissembling
,
doubtful
,
dubious
,
elusive
,
elusory
,
equivocal
,
equivocating
,
equivocatory
,
felonious
,
fishy
,
fraudulent
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
ill-got
,
ill-gotten
,
immoral
,
indirect
,
insidious
,
intangible
,
logic-chopping
,
malingering
,
misleading
,
nit-picking
,
not kosher
,
oblique
,
paltering
,
petty
,
picayune
,
prevaricating
,
pussyfooting
,
questionable
,
quibbling
,
rotten
,
secret
,
secretive
,
shady
,
shameless
,
shifty
,
shirking
,
shuffling
,
sinister
,
sliding
,
slippery
,
sly
,
sophistical
,
suspicious
,
tergiversant
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tergiversating
,
trichoschistic
,
tricky
,
trifling
,
trivial
,
unclear
,
uncommunicative
,
unconscienced
,
unconscientious
,
unconscionable
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
unethical
,
unprincipled
,
unsavory
,
unscrupulous
,
unstraightforward
,
vague
,
weasel-worded
,
without remorse
,
without shame
slippery
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causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain"
not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee
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Machiavellian
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Machiavellic
,
acute
,
adipose
,
ambidextrous
,
amoral
,
arch
,
artful
,
astute
,
blubbery
,
buttery
,
butyraceous
,
cagey
,
calculating
,
canny
,
changeable
,
chiseling
,
chrismal
,
chrismatory
,
clever
,
collusive
,
conscienceless
,
corrupt
,
corrupted
,
covinous
,
crafty
,
criminal
,
critical
,
crooked
,
cunning
,
cute
,
dangerous
,
dark
,
deceitful
,
deep
,
deep-laid
,
delicate
,
designing
,
desultory
,
devious
,
diplomatic
,
dishonest
,
dishonorable
,
disloyal
,
double
,
double-dealing
,
doubtful
,
dubious
,
elusive
,
elusory
,
evasive
,
faithless
,
false
,
falsehearted
,
fat
,
fatty
,
feline
,
felonious
,
finagling
,
fishy
,
foxy
,
fraudulent
,
furtive
,
glassy
,
greased
,
greasy
,
guileful
,
hazardous
,
icy
,
ill-got
,
ill-gotten
,
immoral
,
inconstant
,
indirect
,
infirm
,
ingenious
,
insecure
,
insidious
,
insubstantial
,
inventive
,
knowing
,
lardaceous
,
lardy
,
lubric
,
lubricated
,
lubricious
,
malingering
,
mucoid
,
not kosher
,
oiled
,
oily
,
oleaginous
,
oleic
,
on slippery ground
,
on thin ice
,
pawky
,
perfidious
,
perilous
,
politic
,
precarious
,
provisional
,
questionable
,
ready
,
reptilian
,
resourceful
,
rich
,
risky
,
rotten
,
scheming
,
sebaceous
,
serpentine
,
shady
,
shaky
,
shameless
,
sharp
,
shifting
,
shifty
,
shirking
,
shrewd
,
sinister
,
sleek
,
slick
,
sliddery
,
slimy
,
slipper
,
slippy
,
slithery
,
sly
,
smooth
,
snaky
,
sneaky
,
soaped
,
soapy
,
sophistical
,
stealthy
,
strategic
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
suety
,
supple
,
surreptitious
,
suspicious
,
tactical
,
tallowy
,
temporary
,
tentative
,
ticklish
,
touch-and-go
,
touchy
,
treacherous
,
trickish
,
tricksy
,
tricky
,
two-faced
,
uncertain
,
unconscienced
,
unconscientious
,
unconscionable
,
unctuous
,
undependable
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
unethical
,
unfaithworthy
,
unguent
,
unguentary
,
unguentous
,
unprincipled
,
unreliable
,
unsavory
,
unscrupulous
,
unsolid
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsteadfast
,
unsteady
,
unstraightforward
,
unsubstantial
,
unsure
,
untrustworthy
,
variable
,
vulpine
,
wary
,
wily
,
without remorse
,
without shame
shifty
collapse
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Machiavellian
,
Machiavellic
,
acute
,
adrift
,
afloat
,
alternating
,
ambidextrous
,
amoral
,
amorphous
,
arch
,
artful
,
astute
,
back-door
,
backstairs
,
bent
,
cagey
,
calculating
,
canny
,
capricious
,
changeable
,
changeful
,
chiseling
,
clandestine
,
clever
,
close
,
closemouthed
,
collusive
,
conniving
,
conscienceless
,
conspiratorial
,
corrupt
,
corrupted
,
covert
,
covinous
,
crafty
,
criminal
,
crooked
,
cunning
,
cute
,
dangerous
,
dark
,
deceitful
,
deceiving
,
deep
,
deep-laid
,
designing
,
desultory
,
deviable
,
devious
,
diplomatic
,
discreet
,
dishonest
,
dishonorable
,
dizzy
,
dodging
,
double
,
double-dealing
,
doubtful
,
dubious
,
duplicitous
,
eccentric
,
elusive
,
elusory
,
equivocating
,
erratic
,
evasive
,
false
,
falsehearted
,
fast and loose
,
feline
,
felonious
,
fickle
,
finagling
,
fishy
,
fitful
,
flickering
,
flighty
,
flitting
,
fluctuating
,
foxy
,
fraudulent
,
freakish
,
furtive
,
giddy
,
guileful
,
hazardous
,
hidlings
,
hole-and-corner
,
hugger-mugger
,
ill-got
,
ill-gotten
,
immoral
,
impetuous
,
impulsive
,
inconsistent
,
inconstant
,
indecisive
,
indirect
,
infirm
,
ingenious
,
insecure
,
insidious
,
insubstantial
,
inventive
,
irregular
,
irresolute
,
irresponsible
,
knavish
,
knowing
,
lying
,
malingering
,
mazy
,
mendacious
,
mercurial
,
moody
,
not kosher
,
pawky
,
perfidious
,
perilous
,
politic
,
precarious
,
privy
,
provisional
,
questionable
,
quiet
,
rambling
,
ready
,
resourceful
,
restless
,
risky
,
roguish
,
rotten
,
roving
,
scatterbrained
,
scheming
,
secret
,
secretive
,
serpentine
,
shady
,
shaky
,
shameless
,
shapeless
,
sharp
,
shifting
,
shirking
,
shrewd
,
shuffling
,
sinister
,
skulking
,
slick
,
slinking
,
slinky
,
slippery
,
sly
,
smooth
,
snaky
,
sneaking
,
sneaky
,
sophistical
,
spasmodic
,
spineless
,
stealthy
,
strategic
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
supple
,
surreptitious
,
suspicious
,
tactical
,
temporary
,
tentative
,
ticklish
,
traitorous
,
treacherous
,
trickish
,
tricksy
,
tricky
,
two-faced
,
unaccountable
,
uncertain
,
uncommunicative
,
unconscienced
,
unconscientious
,
unconscionable
,
uncontrolled
,
undependable
,
under-the-counter
,
under-the-table
,
undercover
,
underground
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
undisciplined
,
unethical
,
unfaithworthy
,
unfixed
,
unobtrusive
,
unpredictable
,
unprincipled
,
unreliable
,
unrestrained
,
unsavory
,
unscrupulous
,
unsettled
,
unsolid
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unstable as water
,
unstaid
,
unsteadfast
,
unsteady
,
unstraightforward
,
unsubstantial
,
unsure
,
untrustworthy
,
untruthful
,
vacillating
,
vagrant
,
variable
,
vicissitudinary
,
vicissitudinous
,
volatile
,
vulpine
,
wandering
,
wanton
,
wary
,
wavering
,
wavery
,
wavy
,
wayward
,
whimsical
,
wily
,
wishy-washy
,
without remorse
,
without shame
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