Exact Match:
- furtiveness
- a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously
Synonyms:
- artfulness,
- clandestine behavior,
- clandestinity,
- covertness,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- duplicity,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- guile,
- hypocrisy,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- prowl,
- prowling,
- shiftiness,
- slinkiness,
- slyness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- stalking,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- surreptitiousness,
- treacherousness,
- underground activity,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness
Related Words:
- chicane
collapse - a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes place before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- a bridge hand that is void of trumps related words >
- 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
- 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
- duplicity
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- acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another related words >
- Janus,
- Machiavellianism,
- ambidexterity,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- conjugation,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dichotomy,
- dirty pool,
- dirty trick,
- dirty work,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- equivocality,
- faithlessness,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- foul play,
- furtiveness,
- guile,
- halving,
- hypocrisy,
- improbity,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- irony,
- low cunning,
- pairing,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- polarity,
- shiftiness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- surreptitiousness,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- underhandedness,
- wile
- chase,
- chevy,
- chivy,
- clandestine behavior,
- clandestinity,
- coursing,
- covertness,
- cynegetics,
- dogging,
- domiciliary visit,
- dragnet,
- exploration,
- falconry,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- forage,
- fox hunting,
- frisk,
- furtiveness,
- gunning,
- hawking,
- house-search,
- hue and cry,
- hunt,
- hunting,
- perquisition,
- posse,
- probe,
- prosecution,
- prowl,
- prowling,
- pursuance,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- ransacking,
- rummage,
- search,
- search party,
- search warrant,
- search-and-destroy operation,
- searching,
- seeking,
- shadowing,
- shiftiness,
- shikar,
- shooting,
- slinkiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sport,
- sporting,
- stalk,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- still hunt,
- surreptitiousness,
- tracking,
- tracking down,
- trailing,
- turning over,
- underground activity,
- underhand dealing,
- venery
- secrecy
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- the trait of keeping things secret related words >
- Jim Crow,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- burial,
- burying,
- censorship,
- clandestineness,
- clouding,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- confidentiality,
- confidentially,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertly,
- covertness,
- darkening,
- deception,
- detachment,
- disappearance,
- furtively,
- furtiveness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush,
- hush-hush,
- immateriality,
- imperceptibility,
- indiscernibility,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- masking,
- mysteriously,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- nonappearance,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- privacy,
- privately,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- putting away,
- quarantine,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- screening,
- seclusion,
- secretion,
- secretively,
- secretiveness,
- secretly,
- secretness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- silence,
- sneakily,
- splendid isolation,
- stealth,
- stealthily,
- subterfuge,
- suppression,
- surreptitiously,
- surreptitiousness,
- the invisible,
- the unseen,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unperceivability,
- unseeableness,
- unsubstantiality,
- viewlessness,
- withdrawal
- 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
- prowl
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- the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)
- move about in or as if in a predatory manner; "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town"
- loiter about, with no apparent aim related words >
- bat around,
- bum,
- clandestine behavior,
- clandestinity,
- couch,
- count ties,
- cover,
- covertness,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cruise,
- divagate,
- drift,
- flit,
- furtiveness,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- go about,
- go on tiptoe,
- go the rounds,
- grovel,
- gumshoe,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- hunting,
- inch,
- inch along,
- jaunt,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- lay wait,
- lie in wait,
- lurk,
- meander,
- mooch,
- nightwalk,
- nomadize,
- pad,
- patrol,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- ramble,
- range,
- range over,
- roam,
- rove,
- run about,
- saunter,
- scavenge,
- scour,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- searching,
- seeking,
- shadow,
- shiftiness,
- sidle,
- skulk,
- slink,
- slinkiness,
- slyness,
- snake,
- sneak,
- sneakiness,
- stalk,
- stalking,
- steal,
- steal along,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- straggle,
- stray,
- stroll,
- surreptitiousness,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tracking,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- underground activity,
- underhand dealing,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wayfare,
- worm,
- worm along
- hypocrisy
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- insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
- an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Pharisaism,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- chicanery,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- empty gesture,
- facade,
- fakery,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- furtiveness,
- glibness,
- goody-goodiness,
- guile,
- humbug,
- hypocriticalness,
- image,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- lip service,
- lying,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mendacity,
- mere show,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- pecksniffery,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quackery,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- shiftiness,
- show,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- stylishness,
- surreptitiousness,
- sweet talk,
- tokenism,
- treacherousness,
- two-facedness,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- underhandedness,
- unnaturalness
- indirection
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- deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"
- indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection" related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- artfulness,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- cheat,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circling,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- corner,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- craft,
- criminality,
- crook,
- crookedness,
- crosswiseness,
- cunning,
- curve,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- declination,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- digression,
- dirt,
- discursion,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- drift,
- drifting,
- dupery,
- duplicity,
- errantry,
- evasiveness,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feloniousness,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- furtiveness,
- guile,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hairpin,
- hanky-panky,
- hypocrisy,
- improbity,
- indirectness,
- insidiousness,
- meandering,
- nonconformity,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- pererration,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- rambling,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- shadiness,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- skew,
- skewness,
- slant,
- slipperiness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- squint,
- straying,
- surreptitiousness,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- transverseness,
- treacherousness,
- trickiness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- vagary,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wheeling,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- baseness,
- bickering,
- blind,
- bluff,
- boggling,
- bosey,
- captiousness,
- catch,
- caviling,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chouse,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- degradation,
- design,
- device,
- deviousness,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- dodging,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fencing,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hairsplitting,
- hanky-panky,
- hedging,
- hocus-pocus,
- intrigue,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- knavishness,
- little game,
- logic-chopping,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- moral turpitude,
- move,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- racket,
- rascality,
- rascalry,
- red herring,
- reprobacy,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scampishness,
- scheme,
- scoundrelism,
- scurvy trick,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- sophistry,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- surreptitiousness,
- tactic,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- turpitude,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- vileness,
- villainousness,
- villainy,
- 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
- Machiavellianism,
- Prospero,
- Punic faith,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- affectation,
- airiness,
- ambidexterity,
- apostasy,
- appearance,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- bamboozlement,
- barratry,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- calculated deception,
- cant,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereliction,
- desertion,
- deviancy,
- disaffection,
- dishonesty,
- disloyalty,
- distortion,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- dupery,
- duplicity,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- faithlessness,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false appearance,
- false light,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- fickleness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- furtiveness,
- goody-goodiness,
- guile,
- hallucination,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hoodwinking,
- hypocrisy,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- immateriality,
- improbity,
- inconstancy,
- indirection,
- infidelity,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- kidding,
- low cunning,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mala fides,
- mealymouthedness,
- mirage,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mummery,
- oiliness,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- peccancy,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- perversion,
- phantasm,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- prestidigitation,
- putting on,
- recreancy,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- self-deception,
- self-righteousness,
- semblance,
- shiftiness,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- sleight of hand,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- song and dance,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- surreptitiousness,
- swindling,
- tergiversation,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trothlessness,
- two-facedness,
- unactuality,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- underhandedness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unorthodoxy,
- unreality,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsubstantiality,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- victimization,
- vision,
- wile,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wrong,
- wrongness
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