fancy footwork

ADJECTIVE

cunning

Synonyms

STRONG

Machiavellian acute deep keen knowing sharp slick smart smarts smooth

WEAK

artful astute cagey canny crafty crazy like fox foxy guileful insidious shifty shrewd slippery sly sly boots street-smart streetwise subtle tricky wary wily

Antonyms

STRONG

aboveboard blunt coarse dull ignorant obtuse rough slow stupid unintelligent unstylish

WEAK

gullible kind naive shy unclever unimaginative

NOUN

evasion

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dodging

STRONG

artifice circumvention cunning ditch dodge elusion equivocation evasiveness excuse jive lie obliqueness pretext prevarication quibble routine ruse shift shirking shuffling shunning sophism sophistry stall subterfuge trick trickery

WEAK

come-off cop-out equivocating eschewal evading fudging fugiviteness fugivity runaround stonewall

Antonyms

STRONG

directness frankness honesty openness reality truth

WEAK

facing meeting

NOUN

maneuver

Synonyms

STRONGEST

action gimmick manipulation measure movement plot ploy procedure ruse scheme step stunt trick

STRONG

angle artifice contrivance demarche device dodge feint finesse gambit game intrigue jig machination plan play proceeding shenanigans shuffle stratagem subterfuge

WEAK

curveball

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cessation ignorance inaction inactivity stoppage

STRONG

honesty openness

Example Sentences

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It is matching Washington’s fancy footwork with Pakistan with some slick moves of its own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

As always, we’re challenging scientists to explain their research obsession with fancy footwork, but no PowerPoint slides or jargon.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 24, 2024

In the video, the duo dressed in matching outfits and showed off fancy footwork in a casino.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Player of the match Seuteni produced a no-look 30-yard pass to kick-start a flowing move featuring exhilarating offloads and fancy footwork that ended with scrum-half Kerr-Barlow powering over for his second try.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2023

Two swords, some fancy footwork, and a clear winner.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

fancy footwork

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