Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- concealed,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on the sly,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- veiled,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
Related Words:
- backstairs
collapse - a second staircase at the rear of a building related words >
- clandestine
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- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" related words >
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- doggo,
- feline,
- furtive,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- lurking,
- on tiptoe,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- shifty,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- waiting concealed
- underneath
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- under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath; "we could see the original painting underneath"; "a house with a good foundation underneath"
- on the lower or downward side; on the underside of; "a chest of drawers all scratched underneath" related words >
- bed,
- bedrock,
- belly,
- below,
- beneath,
- bottom,
- bottom side,
- breech,
- buttocks,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- downside,
- fundament,
- furtive,
- hardpan,
- hole-and-corner,
- lower side,
- lowest layer,
- lowest level,
- neath,
- nether side,
- nethermost level,
- rock bottom,
- sole,
- stealthy,
- subordinate to,
- substratum,
- surreptitious,
- under,
- under-the-table,
- underbelly,
- undercover,
- underlayer,
- underside
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- wily
- unobtrusive
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- not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable; "a quiet, unobtrusive life of self-denial" related words >
- Attic,
- aesthetic,
- artistic,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- chaste,
- choice,
- clandestine,
- classic,
- covert,
- excellent,
- feline,
- furtive,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- humble,
- in good taste,
- meek,
- modest,
- of choice,
- of quality,
- pleasing,
- privy,
- pure,
- quiet,
- restrained,
- shifty,
- simple,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- subdued,
- surreptitious,
- tasteful,
- tasty,
- unaffected,
- unambitious,
- unaspiring,
- unassuming,
- unboastful,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- understated,
- unimposing,
- unostentatious,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- well-chosen
- artful,
- burr,
- calculating,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cross-hatching,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- demitint,
- engravement,
- engraving,
- etch,
- etching,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gem-engraving,
- glass-cutting,
- glyptic,
- graving,
- guileful,
- half tint,
- hatching,
- incision,
- indirect,
- inscript,
- inscription,
- insidious,
- line,
- lining,
- marking,
- scheming,
- score,
- scoring,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- slash,
- slashing,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- stipple,
- stippling,
- surreptitious,
- tint,
- tooling,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- type-cutting,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- wily
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- sagacious,
- 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,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- vulpine,
- wary
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- duplicitous,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- Janus-like,
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- bifacial,
- bifold,
- biform,
- bilateral,
- binary,
- binate,
- biparous,
- bivalent,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- conduplicate,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- dishonest,
- disomatous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- dual,
- duple,
- duplex,
- duplicate,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- geminate,
- geminated,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- perfidious,
- scheming,
- second,
- secondary,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- twin,
- twinned,
- two-level,
- two-ply,
- two-sided,
- two-story,
- twofold,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- wily
- calculating
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- used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- artful,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- chiseling,
- circumspect,
- collusive,
- computational,
- computative,
- computing,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- considerate,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- designing,
- devious,
- discreet,
- disingenuous,
- enumerative,
- estimating,
- estimative,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intriguing,
- knowing,
- manipulative,
- numerative,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- quantifying,
- safe,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaky,
- statistical,
- stratagemical,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- wary,
- wily
- furtive
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- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" related words >
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- conspiratorial,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under the table,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- untrustworthy,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
- abeyant,
- about to be,
- already in sight,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- between the lines,
- brewing,
- close,
- close at hand,
- coming,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- delitescent,
- doggo,
- dormant,
- esoteric,
- forthcoming,
- furtive,
- future,
- gathering,
- going to happen,
- hibernating,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- in ambush,
- in danger imminent,
- in hiding,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in the wings,
- in view,
- instant,
- latent,
- looming,
- lowering,
- menacing,
- muffled,
- mystic,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- obfuscated,
- obscured,
- occult,
- on the horizon,
- on tiptoe,
- overhanging,
- possible,
- potential,
- preparing,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiescent,
- skulking,
- sleeping,
- sneaking,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- submerged,
- surreptitious,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- to come,
- under cover,
- under the surface,
- underlying,
- unmanifested,
- upcoming,
- veiled,
- virtual,
- waiting,
- waiting concealed
- amoral,
- artful,
- bent,
- brigandish,
- burglarious,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- evasive,
- fake,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- falsified,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- forged,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- imitation,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- kleptomaniac,
- larcenous,
- light-fingered,
- not kosher,
- pinchbeck,
- piratelike,
- piratic,
- questionable,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- shady,
- sham,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- spurious,
- sticky-fingered,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- thieving,
- thievish,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- boyish,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- diluted,
- ethereal,
- feline,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- frail,
- furtive,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gracile,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- insubstantial,
- lacy,
- light,
- misty,
- papery,
- privy,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinking,
- sly,
- small,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- vague,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- amoral,
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- not kosher,
- privy,
- questionable,
- quiet,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- undermanned,
- understaffed,
- unethical,
- unobtrusive,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- all fours,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- crawl,
- crawling,
- creep,
- creeping,
- cringing,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- devious,
- doggo,
- duplicitous,
- feline,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- gumshoeing,
- gut,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- inherent,
- innate,
- intuitive,
- lingering,
- lurking,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- nightwalking,
- on tiptoe,
- padding,
- persistent,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- pussyfooting,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- secret,
- shifty,
- sidling,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- snaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- suppressed,
- surreptitious,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- undeclared,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undisclosed,
- undivulged,
- unexpressed,
- unobtrusive,
- unrevealed,
- unvoiced,
- waiting concealed,
- worming,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- sneak
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- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner; "sneak a look"; "sneak a cigarette" related words >
- arrant coward,
- blackguard,
- caitiff,
- clandestine,
- couch,
- covert,
- cower,
- craven,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cringe,
- crouch,
- cur,
- dastard,
- devil,
- fink,
- furtive,
- glide,
- go on tiptoe,
- grass,
- grovel,
- gumshoe,
- heel,
- hole-and-corner,
- hush-hush,
- inch,
- inch along,
- informer,
- knave,
- lay wait,
- lie in wait,
- louse,
- lurk,
- nark,
- nightwalk,
- pad,
- poltroon,
- precious rascal,
- prowl,
- pussyfoot,
- quail,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- recreant,
- reptile,
- rogue,
- run,
- scalawag,
- scamp,
- scoundrel,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- shadow,
- shirk,
- shithead,
- shyster,
- sidle,
- skulk,
- skunk,
- slide,
- slink,
- slip,
- slither,
- sly,
- smuggle,
- snake,
- sneaker,
- snitch,
- snook,
- spalpeen,
- stalk,
- steal,
- steal along,
- stealthy,
- stoolie,
- surreptitious,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- toad,
- undercover,
- villain,
- weasel,
- worm,
- worm along
- ulterior
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- beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote; "a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"; "without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"- G.B.Shaw related words >
- accessory,
- additional,
- alien,
- ambiguous,
- ancillary,
- another,
- arcane,
- auxiliary,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beyond,
- buried,
- cabalistic,
- censored,
- classified,
- close,
- closed,
- collateral,
- concealed,
- contributory,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- dark,
- enigmatic,
- equivocal,
- esoteric,
- exotic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extra,
- extraneous,
- extraterrestrial,
- extrinsic,
- farther,
- foreign,
- foreign-born,
- fresh,
- further,
- guarded,
- hermetic,
- hidden,
- hush-hush,
- intrusive,
- latent,
- more,
- more distant,
- mysterious,
- new,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- other,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outside,
- personal,
- plus,
- private,
- privy,
- remote,
- remoter,
- restricted,
- secret,
- shrouded,
- smothered,
- spare,
- stifled,
- strange,
- supernumerary,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- suppressed,
- surplus,
- surreptitious,
- thither,
- top secret,
- unbreatheable,
- under cover,
- under security,
- under wraps,
- underhanded,
- underlying,
- undisclosable,
- undisclosed,
- undivulgable,
- undivulged,
- unearthly,
- unexpressed,
- unrevealable,
- unrevealed,
- unspoken,
- untellable,
- untold,
- unutterable,
- unuttered,
- unwhisperable,
- yon,
- yonder
- treacherous
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- dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Punic,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- calculating,
- chancy,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dangerous,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- desultory,
- dishonest,
- disloyal,
- double,
- double-crossing,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hairy,
- hazardous,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- insubstantial,
- jeopardous,
- misleading,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- precariousness,
- provisional,
- recreant,
- risky,
- rocky,
- scheming,
- shaky,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- surreptitious,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- traitorous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfaithful,
- unfaithworthy,
- unhealthy,
- unloyal,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- wicked,
- wily
- sneaky
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- marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covert,
- covinous,
- cowering,
- crafty,
- cringing,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- politic,
- privy,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- unscrupulous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- sidelong
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- inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
- to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
- with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground" related words >
- aside,
- askance,
- askant,
- aslant,
- aslope,
- asquint,
- at an angle,
- atilt,
- away,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- broadside,
- broadside on,
- canting,
- careening,
- circuitous,
- circuitously,
- covert,
- crabwise,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviately,
- deviative,
- devious,
- deviously,
- digressive,
- digressively,
- divagational,
- divagationally,
- divergent,
- divergently,
- edgeway,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- excursive,
- excursively,
- flanking,
- glancing,
- glancingly,
- in juxtaposition,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- indirectly,
- laterad,
- lateral,
- laterally,
- leaning,
- lee,
- leeward,
- left-handed,
- listing,
- nearby,
- next-beside,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- on its side,
- on one side,
- on the beam,
- on the side,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- right and left,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- side,
- sideling,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- sidling,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skirting,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- surreptitious,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy,
- to one side,
- to the side,
- weather,
- windward
- 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,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- keen,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- tidy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- artful
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- marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- ambidextrous,
- arch,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- duplicitous,
- facile,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- oily,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- suave,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- covert,
- crafty,
- creep,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- downy,
- feline,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- gumshoe,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lurk,
- masterful,
- pawky,
- politic,
- predatory,
- privy,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skulk,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slide,
- slim,
- slink,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snake,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- snook,
- sophistical,
- steal,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unobtrusive,
- unscrupulous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- privy
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- hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden" related words >
- WC,
- alive to,
- anonymous,
- appreciative of,
- apprised of,
- awake to,
- aware of,
- back-door,
- backhouse,
- backstairs,
- basement,
- bathroom,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- bog,
- buried,
- can,
- clandestine,
- closet,
- cognizant of,
- comfort station,
- concealed,
- conscious of,
- convenience,
- covert,
- crapper,
- earth closet,
- feline,
- furtive,
- head,
- hep to,
- hidden,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in the know,
- in the secret,
- incognito,
- informed of,
- inmost,
- innermost,
- interior,
- intimate,
- inward,
- isolated,
- jakes,
- john,
- johnny,
- johnny house,
- latrine,
- lavatory,
- let into,
- loo,
- mindful of,
- necessary,
- no stranger to,
- obscured,
- office,
- on to,
- outhouse,
- personal,
- powder room,
- private,
- privileged,
- privy to,
- quiet,
- rest room,
- retired,
- secluded,
- secret,
- seized of,
- sensible of,
- sensible to,
- sequestered,
- shifty,
- shrouded,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- streetwise,
- surreptitious,
- toilet,
- toilet room,
- undeceived,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- urinal,
- washroom,
- water closet,
- wise to,
- withdrawn
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- canny,
- catlike,
- catty,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- closet,
- covert,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- doggo,
- feline,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lurking,
- noiseless,
- on tiptoe,
- pawky,
- politic,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- silent,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneak,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealing,
- stealthful,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- vulpine,
- waiting concealed,
- wary,
- wily
- 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,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dangerous,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gradual,
- guileful,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- not kosher,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- politic,
- questionable,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sinister,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- abstraction,
- all fours,
- annexation,
- appropriation,
- blackmail,
- boodle,
- boosting,
- booty,
- burglary,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- crawl,
- crawling,
- creep,
- creeping,
- doggo,
- embezzlement,
- filching,
- fraud,
- furtive,
- graft,
- gumshoeing,
- haul,
- hidden out,
- hot goods,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- larceny,
- liberation,
- lift,
- lifting,
- loot,
- lurking,
- nightwalking,
- on tiptoe,
- padding,
- peculation,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pickings,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinch,
- pinching,
- piracy,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiarizing,
- plunder,
- poaching,
- pork barrel,
- prize,
- prowling,
- public till,
- public trough,
- purloining,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- pussyfooting,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- scrounging,
- shoplifting,
- sidling,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- snaking,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- sneaking,
- snitching,
- spoil,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- squeeze,
- steal,
- stealage,
- stealings,
- stealthy,
- stolen goods,
- surreptitious,
- swag,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- take,
- theft,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- till,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- touch,
- under cover,
- waiting concealed,
- worming
- oblique
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- any grammatical case other than the nominative
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" related words >
- O-shaped,
- across,
- ambagious,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angling,
- askew,
- aslant,
- athwart,
- atilt,
- awry,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- banked,
- banking,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- cambered,
- canted,
- canting,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- clandestine,
- collateral,
- crook,
- crooked,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflect,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diagonal,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagational,
- diverge,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- false,
- furtive,
- helical,
- implied,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- leaning,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- offhand,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- overthwart,
- periphrastic,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- rhomboid,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sheer,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skew,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- slue,
- sly,
- solidus,
- spiral,
- surreptitious,
- sway,
- swerve,
- thwart,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- turn,
- twist,
- underhanded,
- veer,
- virgule
- hugger mugger
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- act stealthily or secretively related words >
- airtight secrecy,
- all over,
- all over hell,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- balled up,
- black out,
- bollixed up,
- by stealth,
- censor,
- chaotic,
- clandestine,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- concealment,
- confused,
- covert,
- covertly,
- crypticness,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- evasion,
- evasiveness,
- every which way,
- feline,
- fouled up,
- furtive,
- furtively,
- galley-west,
- harum-scarum,
- hash,
- helter-skelter,
- hiddenness,
- hidlings,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a muddle,
- in camera,
- in confusion,
- in disarray,
- in disorder,
- jumble,
- jumbled,
- jungle,
- kill,
- litter,
- mash,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddle,
- muddled,
- muffle,
- privately,
- privy,
- quash,
- quiet,
- repress,
- rummage,
- scattered,
- scramble,
- screwed up,
- secrecy,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- shifty,
- shush,
- silence,
- sit on,
- skimble-skamble,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- smother,
- snafu,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stealthily,
- stealthy,
- stifle,
- sub rosa,
- subterfuge,
- suppress,
- surreptitious,
- surreptitiously,
- the dark,
- topsy-turvy,
- tumble,
- uncommunicativeness,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underneath,
- unobtrusive,
- upside-down,
- willy-nilly
- private
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- an enlisted man of the lowest rank; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
- concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters"
- confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life" related words >
- Tommy,
- Tommy Atkins,
- absolute,
- anonymous,
- antisocial,
- behind closed doors,
- buck private,
- certain,
- clandestine,
- closet,
- common soldier,
- concealed,
- concrete,
- confidential,
- confidentially,
- covert,
- covertly,
- deep-seated,
- defined,
- definite,
- detailed,
- determinate,
- different,
- discreet,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- enlisted man,
- esoteric,
- especial,
- exceptional,
- exclusive,
- express,
- extraordinary,
- fixed,
- furtively,
- genitalia,
- genitals,
- grunt,
- hermitical,
- hidden,
- hush-hush,
- hushed,
- idiosyncratic,
- immanent,
- implanted,
- implicit,
- in camera,
- in private,
- in secret,
- inaccessible,
- inalienable,
- incognito,
- individual,
- indwelling,
- infantryman,
- infixed,
- ingrained,
- inherent,
- inmost,
- inner,
- innermost,
- inside,
- interior,
- internal,
- intimate,
- intrinsic,
- inward,
- inwrought,
- irreducible,
- isolated,
- minute,
- noncommissioned officer,
- not for publication,
- noteworthy,
- off the record,
- on the sly,
- own,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- personal,
- personally,
- precise,
- private first class,
- privately,
- privileged,
- privy,
- reclusive,
- reserved,
- resident,
- respective,
- restricted,
- restrictive,
- reticent,
- retired,
- retiring,
- secluded,
- seclusive,
- secret,
- secretively,
- secretly,
- sequestered,
- several,
- sex organs,
- singular,
- sneakily,
- sneaking,
- sneakingly,
- solipsistic,
- solitary,
- special,
- specific,
- sub rosa,
- subjective,
- surreptitious,
- surreptitiously,
- top secret,
- unalienable,
- unchallengeable,
- uncommunicative,
- undisclosed,
- unofficial,
- unquestionable,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn
- back door
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- a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door"
- an entrance at the rear of a building
- an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains related words >
- French door,
- afterpart,
- afterpiece,
- archway,
- back,
- back road,
- back seat,
- back side,
- back stairs,
- back street,
- back way,
- backstairs,
- barway,
- behind,
- bolt-hole,
- breech,
- bulkhead,
- by-lane,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byroad,
- bystreet,
- byway,
- carriage entrance,
- cellar door,
- cellarway,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- covert way,
- detour,
- door,
- doorjamb,
- doorpost,
- doorway,
- escalier derobe,
- escape hatch,
- escape route,
- feline,
- front door,
- furtive,
- gate,
- gatepost,
- gateway,
- hatch,
- hatchway,
- heel,
- hidlings,
- hind end,
- hind part,
- hindhead,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- lintel,
- occiput,
- porch,
- portal,
- porte cochere,
- posterior,
- postern,
- privy,
- propylaeum,
- pylon,
- quiet,
- rear,
- rear end,
- rearward,
- reverse,
- roundabout way,
- scuttle,
- secret exit,
- secret passage,
- secret staircase,
- shifty,
- side door,
- side road,
- side street,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- stern,
- stile,
- storm door,
- surreptitious,
- tail,
- tail end,
- tailpiece,
- threshold,
- tollgate,
- trap,
- trap door,
- turnpike,
- turnstile,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underground railroad,
- underground route,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- artifice,
- astute,
- cabal,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusion,
- collusive,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiracy,
- conspiring,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deep-laid plot,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- engineering,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- frame-up,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- game,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intrigue,
- intriguing,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- nefarious,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- planning,
- plot,
- plotting,
- politic,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- put-up job,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rigged jury,
- rigging,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- serpentine,
- setup,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stacked deck,
- stealthy,
- stratagem,
- stratagemical,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trick,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underplot,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- web of intrigue,
- wily,
- wire-pulling
- indirect
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- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow"
- having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
- not as a direct effect or consequence; "indirect benefits"; "an indirect advantage" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- accessory,
- accidental,
- additional,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- ancillary,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumambient,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- collusive,
- coming,
- conscienceless,
- contingent,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- eventual,
- excursive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- final,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- incidental,
- insidious,
- labyrinthine,
- last,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- secondary,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slippery,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subordinate,
- subsidiary,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- two-faced,
- ultimate,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- feline
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- any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals many with retractile claws
- of or relating to cats; "feline fur" related words >
- Cheshire cat,
- Chinchilla cat,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Maltese cat,
- acute,
- alley cat,
- amphibian,
- aquatic,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- biped,
- blue cat,
- cagey,
- calico cat,
- canine,
- cannibal,
- canny,
- carnivore,
- cat,
- catlike,
- cattish,
- catty,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- cosmopolite,
- covert,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- felid,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- gib,
- gib-cat,
- gnawer,
- grimalkin,
- guileful,
- herbivore,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- house cat,
- hugger-mugger,
- ingenious,
- insectivore,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- invertebrate,
- kit,
- kitling,
- kitten,
- kittenish,
- kitty,
- kitty-cat,
- knowing,
- leonine,
- lionlike,
- mammal,
- mammalian,
- marsupial,
- marsupialian,
- mouser,
- omnivore,
- pawky,
- politic,
- primate,
- privy,
- puss,
- pussy,
- pussycat,
- quadruped,
- quiet,
- ready,
- reptile,
- resourceful,
- rodent,
- ruminant,
- scavenger,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- silver cat,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tabby,
- tabby cat,
- tactical,
- tiger cat,
- tigerish,
- tom,
- tomcat,
- tortoise-shell cat,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- ungulate,
- unobtrusive,
- varmint,
- vermin,
- vertebrate,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- above water,
- abstruse,
- armored,
- at anchor,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- beclouded,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- behind the veil,
- blind,
- buried,
- cased,
- ceiled,
- clandestine,
- cloaked,
- close,
- clouded,
- coated,
- concealed,
- confidential,
- coped,
- covered,
- covert,
- covertly,
- cowled,
- curtained,
- doggo,
- eclipsed,
- encapsulated,
- encapsuled,
- encased,
- enveloped,
- enwrapped,
- feline,
- filmed,
- floored,
- furtive,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- high and dry,
- hole-and-corner,
- hooded,
- housed,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in a cloud,
- in a corner,
- in a fog,
- in a whisper,
- in ambush,
- in darkness,
- in eclipse,
- in harbor,
- in hiding,
- in hidlings,
- in purdah,
- in safety,
- in secret,
- in the background,
- in the clear,
- in the dark,
- in the wings,
- incommunicado,
- latent,
- loricate,
- loricated,
- lurking,
- mantled,
- masked,
- muffled,
- mysterious,
- nobody the wiser,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- occulted,
- on,
- on tiptoe,
- out of danger,
- packaged,
- past danger,
- paved,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- recondite,
- roofed-in,
- screened,
- scummed,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- secretly,
- sequestered,
- sheathed,
- shelled,
- shielded,
- shifty,
- shrouded,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sotto voce,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- sub rosa,
- surreptitious,
- swathed,
- tented,
- terra firma,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under the breath,
- under the rose,
- under wraps,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underneath,
- unknown,
- unobtrusive,
- veiled,
- waiting concealed,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- with bated breath,
- wrapped,
- wrapped in clouds
- devious
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- deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"
- characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" related words >
- Byzantine,
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- anfractuous,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bending,
- calculating,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- conscienceless,
- convoluted,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crabbed,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- curving,
- daedal,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- diverting,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- errant,
- erratic,
- erring,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fouled up,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- implicated,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knowing,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- lonesome,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- misleading,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- perplexed,
- planetary,
- plotting,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- ramified,
- remote,
- removed,
- retired,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- screwed up,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- snarled,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- Herculean,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- abstruse,
- acute,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- arch,
- arduous,
- artful,
- astute,
- awkward,
- beguiling,
- brutal,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- catchy,
- cheating,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusive,
- complex,
- complicated,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- critical,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dark,
- debatable,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- delicate,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- demanding,
- designing,
- devious,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- evasive,
- exacting,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- formidable,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hairy,
- hallucinatory,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hazardous,
- iffy,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- intricate,
- inventive,
- jawbreaking,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- knowing,
- laborious,
- mean,
- misleading,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- not kosher,
- operose,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- playful,
- politic,
- prankish,
- pranksome,
- pranky,
- precarious,
- questionable,
- quirky,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rigorous,
- risky,
- rocky,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- serpentine,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sinister,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- spiny,
- sportive,
- stealthy,
- steep,
- sticky,
- strategic,
- strenuous,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- tough,
- treacherous,
- trick,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- two-faced,
- uncertain,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- undependable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfair,
- unjust,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unsportsmanlike,
- unstraightforward,
- uphill,
- vulpine,
- waggish,
- wary,
- wicked,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
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