underhandedness
61dishonesty — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deceit, deception, falsehood, trickery, infidelity, faithlessness, falsity, craft, artifice, duplicity, wiliness, untrustworthiness, insidiousness, cunning, guile, perfidiousness, slyness, perfidy, double dealing,… …
62secrecy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. concealment, confidence, hiding, seclusion, privacy, retirement, solitude, mystery, dark, darkness, isolation, reticence, stealth, surreptitiousness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. concealment, covertness, confidentiality …
63craftiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Deceitful cleverness: art, artfulness, artifice, craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness. See HONEST, MEANS. 2. Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft, deviousness, dishonesty …
64deviousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft, craftiness, dishonesty, indirection, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness. See HONEST …
65indirection — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft, craftiness, deviousness, dishonesty, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness. See HONEST …
66shadiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft, craftiness, deviousness, dishonesty, indirection, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness. See HONEST …
67shiftiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act or practice of deceiving: cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, double dealing, duplicity, guile. See HONEST. 2. Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft, craftiness,… …
68slyness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Deceitful cleverness: art, artfulness, artifice, craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, wiliness. See HONEST, MEANS. 2. Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft, craftiness,… …
69sneakiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act of proceeding slowly, deliberately, and secretly to escape observation: furtiveness, slinkiness, stealth, stealthiness. See MOVE. 2. Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft,… …
70sly — [12] Etymologically, sly means ‘able to hit’. It was borrowed from Old Norse slǣgr ‘clever, cunning’, which went back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *slakh , *slag , *slōg ‘hit’ (source also of English slaughter, slay, etc). The… …
