Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- 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
Related Words:
- furtiveness
collapse - a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously related words >
- 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
- 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
- foul play
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- unfair or treacherous behavior (especially involving violence) related words >
- artifice,
- assassination,
- blood,
- bloody murder,
- bumping-off,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- covin,
- crime,
- deception,
- dirty pool,
- dirty trick,
- dirty work,
- dodgery,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- elimination,
- falseheartedness,
- foul,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- homicide,
- killing,
- liquidation,
- machination,
- manslaughter,
- murder,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- purge,
- purging,
- removal,
- sharp practice,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- supercherie,
- thuggee,
- thuggery,
- thuggism,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trickery,
- underhand dealing,
- unfairness,
- unsportsmanlikeness,
- unsportsmanliness
- 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
- 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
- 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
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- contrast,
- cunning,
- deception,
- delusion,
- difference,
- discrepancy,
- disguise,
- disparity,
- dissembling,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissimulation,
- distinction,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- duplicity,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- makeup,
- masquerade,
- mere caricature,
- meretriciousness,
- nonuniformity,
- ostentation,
- otherness,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- poor imitation,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- unlikeness,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- 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
- 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
- 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
- dexterity
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- adroitness in using the hands related words >
- ability,
- acuity,
- acuteness,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- airmanship,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- astuteness,
- braininess,
- bravura,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- canniness,
- capability,
- capacity,
- clear thinking,
- cleverness,
- command,
- competence,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftsmanship,
- cunning,
- deftness,
- dexterousness,
- dextrality,
- dextrocularity,
- dextroduction,
- dextrogyration,
- dextrorotation,
- dextrousness,
- dextroversion,
- diplomacy,
- efficiency,
- effortlessness,
- esprit,
- expertise,
- facility,
- finesse,
- flair,
- genius,
- giftedness,
- gifts,
- grace,
- grip,
- guile,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- knack,
- know-how,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- mental alertness,
- mercurial mind,
- native cleverness,
- nimble mind,
- nimble-wittedness,
- nimbleness,
- nous,
- practical ability,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- quick parts,
- quick thinking,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- ready wit,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- right-handedness,
- rightness,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- sharp-wittedness,
- sharpness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- smartness,
- smarts,
- smoothness,
- sprightly wit,
- style,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- talent,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- timing,
- touch,
- virtuosity,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- 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
- 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,
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- affectation,
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- overelaboration,
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- sharp practice,
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- style,
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- tact,
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- treacherousness,
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- uncandor,
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- unfrankness,
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- virtuosity,
- wariness,
- wiles,
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- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- Italian hand,
- Machiavellianism,
- acuteness,
- allure,
- ambidexterity,
- art,
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- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- beguile,
- bestow,
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- bluff,
- bosey,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
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- catch,
- charm,
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- 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,
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- 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
- deception
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- the act of deceiving related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- airy nothing,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- autism,
- befooling,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
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- burying,
- casuistry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chimera,
- clouding,
- color,
- coloring,
- concealedness,
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- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- cunning,
- darkening,
- daydream,
- deceit,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dirt,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- duping,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false belief,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- gulling,
- gyp,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hoax,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- impose,
- imposture,
- indirection,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- knavery,
- manipulation,
- masking,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mystification,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overreaching,
- pipe dream,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- putting away,
- representation,
- ride,
- rip-off,
- ruse,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- seeming,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- snow job,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- spuriousness,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing,
- wrong impression
- 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
- 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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