fancy footwork

Machiavellian acute deep keen knowing sharp slick smart smarts smooth

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

aboveboard blunt coarse dull ignorant obtuse rough slow stupid unintelligent unstylish

gullible kind naive shy unclever unimaginative

dodging

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

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

directness frankness honesty openness reality truth

facing meeting

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

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

curveball

cessation ignorance inaction inactivity stoppage

honesty openness