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- cute
collapse - obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" related words >
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
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- trickish,
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- wily,
- workmanlike
- crafty
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- marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
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- collusive,
- covinous,
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- cute,
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- deep,
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- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
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- faithless,
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- false-principled,
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- fawning,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
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- serpentine,
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- subtle,
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- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
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- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- 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,
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- ready,
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- serpentine,
- shadowy,
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- trickish,
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- pawky,
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- politic,
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- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
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- slick,
- slippery,
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- treacherous,
- trickish,
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- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
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- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
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- arch,
- artful,
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- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
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- covert,
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- creep,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
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- 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,
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- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skulk,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slide,
- slim,
- slink,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snake,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
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- snook,
- sophistical,
- steal,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
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- resourceful,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
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- silent,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneak,
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- sophistical,
- stealing,
- stealthful,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
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- 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,
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- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- creative,
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- cute,
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- deceitful,
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- deft,
- designing,
- dexterous,
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- diplomatic,
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- fancy,
- feline,
- flexible,
- foxy,
- generally capable,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
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- 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
- 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,
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- false,
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- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gradual,
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- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- not kosher,
- pawky,
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- perilous,
- politic,
- questionable,
- ready,
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- rotten,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
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- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
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- stealthy,
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- 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
- 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
- planning
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- the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise
- an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action; "the planning was more fun than the trip itself"
- the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" related words >
- adjustment,
- approach,
- arrangement,
- attack,
- basic training,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- briefing,
- calculation,
- charting,
- clearing the decks,
- codification,
- conception,
- contrivance,
- coordination,
- design,
- device,
- disposition,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- equipment,
- familiarization,
- figuring,
- fixing,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- foundation,
- frame-up,
- game,
- graphing,
- ground plan,
- groundwork,
- guidelines,
- harmonization,
- idea,
- intention,
- layout,
- lineup,
- long-range plan,
- makeready,
- making ready,
- manufacture,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- method,
- methodization,
- methodology,
- mobilization,
- normalization,
- operations research,
- ordination,
- organization,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- plan,
- planning function,
- plotting,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- preliminaries,
- preliminary,
- preliminary act,
- preliminary step,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- prep,
- preparation,
- preparatory study,
- preparing,
- prepping,
- prerequisite,
- pretreatment,
- procedure,
- processing,
- program,
- program of action,
- propaedeutic,
- provision,
- put-up job,
- rationalization,
- readying,
- regularization,
- regulation,
- rigged jury,
- routinization,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- scheming,
- setup,
- spadework,
- stacked deck,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- training,
- treatment,
- trial,
- tryout,
- warm-up,
- way,
- working plan
- 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
- 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
- cautious
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- cautious in attitude and careful in actions; prudent; "a cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing everything she was told"
- showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"
- avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" related words >
- alert,
- ambling,
- attentive,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- considerate,
- cozy,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- easy,
- expedient,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- foresighted,
- forethoughtful,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- guarded,
- halting,
- hard of belief,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- impervious to persuasion,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- indolent,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loving,
- lumbering,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- precautious,
- provident,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scheming,
- scrupling,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrewd,
- shuffling,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- solicitous,
- staggering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprecipitate,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- waddling,
- wary,
- watchful
- 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
- confederacy
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- the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 related words >
- Anschluss,
- Bund,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- addition,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- anschluss,
- artifice,
- assemblage,
- assimilation,
- association,
- axis,
- band,
- blend,
- blending,
- bloc,
- body,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- colleagueship,
- college,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- common market,
- complicity,
- complot,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- confederation,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connivance,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- consumer cooperative,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- cooperative,
- cooperative society,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- corps,
- council,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- credit union,
- customs union,
- deep-laid plot,
- economic community,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- encompassment,
- engineering,
- enosis,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- frame-up,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- free trade area,
- freemasonry,
- fusion,
- game,
- gang,
- group,
- grouping,
- hookup,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intrigue,
- junction,
- junta,
- league,
- little game,
- machination,
- machine,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- marriage,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- mob,
- package,
- package deal,
- partnership,
- plot,
- plotting,
- political machine,
- rigging,
- ring,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- society,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- stratagem,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- trick,
- underplot,
- unification,
- union,
- web of intrigue,
- wedding,
- wire-pulling
- collusion
collapse
- secret agreement related words >
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- artifice,
- association,
- bipartisanship,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collectivity,
- combination,
- combined effort,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complicity,
- complot,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- concomitance,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confluence,
- conjunction,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- consilience,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- correspondence,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- deep-laid plot,
- dodgery,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- engineering,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- foul play,
- frame-up,
- game,
- harmony,
- intrigue,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- junction,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- mass action,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- parasitism,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- plotting,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- reciprocity,
- rigging,
- saprophytism,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- septet,
- sextet,
- sharp practice,
- simultaneity,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- solidarity,
- stratagem,
- supercherie,
- symbiosis,
- synchronism,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- underhand dealing,
- underplot,
- union,
- united action,
- web of intrigue,
- wire-pulling
- manipulation
collapse
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" related words >
- accounting,
- action,
- agency,
- anal intercourse,
- analysis,
- artifice,
- authority,
- autoeroticism,
- automatic electronic navigation,
- bear raid,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- bestiality,
- braking,
- buggery,
- bull raid,
- cabal,
- caressing,
- collusion,
- command,
- complicity,
- complot,
- computation,
- conduct,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- control,
- coordination,
- corner,
- corner in,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- cunnilingus,
- deep-laid plot,
- devices,
- direction,
- driving,
- employment,
- engineering,
- execution,
- exercise,
- expedients,
- exploitation,
- fact distribution,
- feeling,
- fellatio,
- fellation,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- fingering,
- forecasts,
- frame-up,
- friction,
- frottage,
- functioning,
- game,
- governance,
- government,
- guidance,
- hand job,
- handling,
- husbandry,
- influence,
- inspection,
- intrigue,
- irrumation,
- lead,
- leading,
- little game,
- machination,
- management,
- managery,
- managing,
- maneuvering,
- maneuvers,
- masturbation,
- monopoly,
- nonlinear calibrations,
- occupation,
- onanism,
- operancy,
- operation,
- oral-genital stimulation,
- ordering,
- output measurement,
- palpation,
- pederasty,
- performance,
- performing,
- petting,
- pilotage,
- plot,
- plotting,
- political influence,
- practice,
- pressure,
- processing,
- raid,
- record keeping,
- regulation,
- responsibility,
- rigging,
- rubbing,
- running,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- self-abuse,
- sodomy,
- steerage,
- steering,
- stratagem,
- stroking,
- supersonic flow detection,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tactics,
- the conn,
- the helm,
- the wheel,
- touching,
- trick,
- underplot,
- using,
- utilization,
- wash sale,
- washing,
- web of intrigue,
- wire-pulling,
- work,
- working,
- workings
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