underhand dealing

  • 81treacherous — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Punic, ambidextrous, artful, calculating, chancy, chiseling, collusive, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, dangerous, deceitful, deceptive, desultory, dishonest, disloyal, double, double crossing,… …

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  • 82tricky — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abstruse, acute, ambidextrous, amoral, arch, arduous, artful, astute, awkward, beguiling, brutal, cagey, calculating, canny, catchy, cheating, chiseling, clever, collusive,… …

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  • 83two faced — Synonyms and related words: Janus like, Machiavellian, ambidextrous, artful, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, calculating, chiseling, collusive, conduplicate, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful,… …

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  • 84improbity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of probity Nouns 1. improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; disgrace, disrepute; fraud, deception; lying, falsehood; bad faith, infidelity, inconstancy, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal; breach of… …

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  • 85sly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cunning, furtive, wily; crafty, deceitful, stealthy, underhand; roguish, mischievous. See concealment. Ant., artless. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Crafty] Syn. wily, tricky, foxy, shifty, insidious,… …

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  • 86duplicitous — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. deceptive, deceitful, shady, double dealing, treacherous, two faced, two timing, back stabbing, dishonest. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by treachery or deceit: devious, disingenuous, guileful,… …

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  • 87sharp practice —    Trying to achieve something by using underhand, deceitful or dishonourable means, that are barely within the law, is called sharp practice.     That company is under investigation for sharp practice so it s better to avoid dealing with them …

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  • 88sneaking — adj 1. furtive, underhand, underhanded, sneaky; covert, clandestine, sly, undercover, stealthy, surreptitious, feline, back alley, back door. 2. devious, insidious, disingenuous, guileful; tricky, crooked, dishonest, shifty, slippery, Inf. shady …

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  • 89underhanded — adj 1. dirty, unfair, below the belt, against the rules, underhand, Inf. left handed; deceitful, treacherous, perfidious, double dealing, two timing; dishonest, immoral, sinful, bad, wrong, wrongful, unconscionable, unscrupulous, dishonorable;… …

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  • 90street smart — /ˈstrit smat/ (say street smaht) adjective used to dealing with the people on the street, especially in business transactions, and therefore keenly aware of and prepared for the sordid and underhand aspects of urban life. Also, street smart …