Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Deception or dishonesty
adj
(obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
adj
Spurious; due to adulteration.
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(by extension) Skilful at using dishonest or unfair means to achieve a purpose; crafty, cunning.
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Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
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Deceit or neglect.
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(informal) characteristic of deceit and treachery
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The behaviour of a busybody; interfering, meddling.
adj
Of a devious, usually stealthy, manner or practice.
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Corrupt and hardhanded, authoritarian, with patronage and nepotism; grandiose.
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Engaging in chicanery.
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evading or overcoming some protective measure.
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That connives; conspiratorial.
n
(obsolete) Deception, dissimulation.
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Alternative form of covinous [(law) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.]
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(law) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.
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Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
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Deceitful, duplicitous.
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treacherous; given to backstabbing
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Obsolete spelling of deceit [An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.]
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Obsolete form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
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Obsolete form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
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(obsolete) deceitful
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Deliberately misleading or cheating.
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(obsolete) Deceitful.
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deceit, deception
n
deception
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deceptive
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(obsolete) Vulnerable to deception.
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Employing or relating to deception; deceptive.
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(obsolete) Tending to deceive.
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(obsolete) deceptive
adj
Likely or attempting to deceive.
n
exaggerated advertising that attempts to deceive
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(rare) Something that deceives.
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(rare, nonstandard outside religion) A deceiver (weaver of deceptions).
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deceptive
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Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
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(proscribed) Disingenuous.
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Synonym of disingenuousness
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The action of the verb dissemble
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So as to dissemble or deceive; with dissimulation.
n
Hiding one's feelings or intentions.
adj
(rare, historical, law) Deceitful, with hidden malice.
n
(rare) Deceitfulness, hidden malice.
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False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
n
deceit or treachery
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Having a deceitful countenance.
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deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous
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deceitful; deceptive
n
Deceit or hypocrisy.
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treacherous
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Alternative spelling of double-dealing [(of a person) Cheating, dishonest; treacherous.]
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Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
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(obsolete) with duplicity
n
(Zoroastrianism) Deceit, falsehood, lie.
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shrewd, devilish
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duplicitous; two-faced; deceitful
n
duplicity; two-faced deception
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Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
n
Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
n
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
n
(rare) The state of being fake; fakeness.
adj
Disloyal, perfidious.
n
The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
adj
filibustering
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deceitful, duplicitous, beguiling
n
(idiomatic) The characteristic of deceptiveness; duplicity; untruthfulness.
adj
Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; fraudulent.
n
(dated) fraudulence
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Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
n
Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
adj
Characterised or marked by guile or deceit; deceitful.
adj
Amateurish; characterized by overacting.
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insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
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Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
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Not genuinely meaning what has been expressed; not sincere; artificial.
n
(figuratively) A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
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double-faced; deceitful
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(archaic, rare) Worthy of being japed, mockable.
adv
(archaic) deceitfully
adj
Misconstruction of conniving [That connives; conspiratorial.]
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Insincere or malicious.
adj
Alternative form of Machiavellian [Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics or in advancing one's career.]
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Machiavellian
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Machiavellian
n
A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
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prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright
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(obsolete, rare) The action of telling lies in an artful way
adj
Alternative spelling of nosy [Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle.]
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Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
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Hypocrisy; trickery.
n
pilpul; sophistry; hair-splitting
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One who has difficulty hiding lies.
adj
Abounding with plots; scheming.
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Tending to prevaricate.
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Full of schemes or plans.
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Scheming; cunning; devious.
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(derogatory) Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.
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Synonym of self-deception
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The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.
adj
Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
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Sneaky, underhanded; insincere.
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Dishonest; deceitful.
n
Deceptive logic; sophistry.
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Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
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Having the characteristic of returning bad for bad.
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(obsolete, rare) slanderous
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Deceitful; inclined to betray.
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Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
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adept at using deception
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(obsolete) Two-faced; deceitful.
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Deceitful, duplicitous.
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(by extension) Deceitful; lying; two-faced.
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Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
n
Devious people, collectively.
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(rare) Dishonest, deceptive, misleading.
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Likely to use physical force.
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Devious; cunning; misleading; sneaky.
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Full of wiles; deceitful.
n
deceitful cleverness or shrewdness

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