underhandedness
81doubtful — doubtful, dubious, problematic, questionable are comparable when they mean not affording assurance of the worth, soundness, success, or certainty of something or someone. Doubtful and dubious are sometimes used with little distinction. Doubtful,… …
82corruption — n 1. depravity, vice, turpitude, wickedness, evil, iniquity, sinfulness, sin, viciousness; demoralization, perversion, degeneracy; laxity, looseness, immorality, shamelessness, abandon, fleshpots; dissolution, profligacy, wantonness,… …
83deceit — n 1. deception, dissimulation, hypocrisy, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane, trickery; jugglery, trumpery, dupery, hocus pocus, fraudulence, shenanigan; craft, wiles, guile, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle,… …
84hypocrisy — n 1. false goodness, pietism, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, Tartuffery, pharisaism, Relig. formalism; cant, lip service, mouth honor; sophistry, speciousness; false profession, pretense, pretext; pretension, pretending, faking, feigning,… …
85insincerity — n 1. disingenuousness, uncandidness, unfrankness, mealy mouthedness; artificiality, Inf. phoniness, dissembling, dissimulation, cant, lip service, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, flattery, smooth talk; deceit fulness, dishonesty, underhandedness,… …
86privacy — n 1. privateness, intimacy, intimateness, seclusion, solitude, retreat, retirement; isolation, aloneness, loneness, solitariness, loneliness, remoteness, ob scureness, obscurity; aloofness, apartness, separateness, separation; withdrawal,… …
87secrecy — n concealment, hiding, coverture, burial; privacy, retirement, seclusion, sequestration, solitude, isolation; confidentiality, secretness; stealthiness, stealth, furtiveness, surreptitiousness, clandestineness, covertness; slyness, sneakiness,… …
88sleight — n 1. skill, proficiency, efficiency, facility, knack; deftness, adeptness, handiness, readiness, adroitness; cleverness, ingeniousness, wit, inventiveness, artistry. 2. artifice, stratagem, intrigue, maneuver, gambit, ploy, expedient; trick, hoax …
89thievishness — n 1.Psychol. kleptomania, Humorous. furacity or furaciousness; All Inf. sticky fingers, light fingers, itching palm. 2. rapacity, rapaciousness, ravenousness, ravening; greed, avarice, avariciousness, acquisitiveness. 3. dishonesty, fraudulence,… …
90tortuosity — n 1. crookedness, twistedness, anfrac tuosity, sinuousness, tortuousness; sinuosity, curve, bend, turn, crook, twist, convolution; maze, labyrinth. 2. indirectness, circuitousness, ambagiousness, evasiveness, unstraightforwardness; deviousness,… …
