underhandedness
51guile — Synonyms and related words: Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, dissemblance, dissimulation, duplicity,… …
52hypocrisy — Synonyms and related words: Pecksniffery, Pharisaism, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, charlatanism, charlatanry, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit,… …
53indirection — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, ambages, artfulness, bend, bias, branching off, cheat, chicane, chicanery, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency,… …
54stealth — Synonyms and related words: Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, clandestine behavior, clandestineness, clandestinity, cleverness, covertness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness,… …
55trickery — Synonyms and related words: art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, blind, bravery, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chiffon, clinquant, collusion, conjuration, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, craftiness,… …
56craft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. skill, expertise; art, handicraft; trade; vessel, ship, boat; cunning, artfulness, deceit, trickery. See business. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Skill] Syn. proficiency, competence, adeptness; see ability 2 …
57deceit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fraud, artifice, cheating. See deception. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Deceitfulness] Syn. deception, fraud, trickery, duplicity; see deception 1 , dishonesty . 2. [Deceitful action] Syn. sham, fraud, lie,… …
58skulduggery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trickery, deception. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. sneakiness, trickery, craftiness, deception, deceit, artifice, wile, treachery, machination, underhandedness, conspiracy, foul play. ANT.: honesty …
59stealth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. furtiveness, secrecy, skulking, stalking. See concealment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. slyness, furtiveness, underhandedness; see secrecy . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. secrecy, sneakiness,… …
60corruption — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Vice] Syn. baseness, depravity, degradation; see crime 1 , evil 1 . 2. [Conduct involving graft] Syn. extortion, bribery, fraud, fraudulence, venality, misrepresentation, dishonesty, profiteering, nepotism, breach of trust,… …
