underhandedness
91bamboozle — bam•boo•zle [[t]bæmˈbu zəl[/t]] v. zled, zling 1) to deceive or get the better of by underhandedness; hoodwink 2) to perplex; mystify 3) to practice trickery, deception, or the like • Etymology: 1695–1705; orig. uncert. bam•boo′zle•ment, n.… …
92underhanded — /ʌndəˈhændəd/ (say unduh handuhd) adjective, adverb → underhand. –underhandedly, adverb –underhandedness, noun …
93chicanery — [n] deception, trickery artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double crossing, double dealing*, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky panky*, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp …
94deceit — [n1] practice of misleading ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing*, dirty pool*, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation …
95trickery — [n] deception, joke bait and switch*, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, deceit, dishonesty, dodge, double cross*, double dealing*, dupery, fast shuffle*, flimflam*, fourberie, fraud, funny business*, guile, hoax, imposture, pretense,… …
96sly — [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… …
97underhanded — [un΄dər han′did] adj. 1. not open or straightforward; secret, sly, deceitful, etc. 2. SHORT HANDED SYN. SECRET underhandedly adv. underhandedness n …
