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More words related to fishy
Pecksniffian
adjective. hypocritical
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
counterfeit
adjective. fake, simulated
deceptive
adjective. dishonest
- ambiguous
- astucious
- beguiling
- bum
- catchy
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- fake
- fallacious
- false
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- illusory
- imposturous
- indirect
- insidious
- lying
- misleading
- mock
- oblique
- off
- phony
- plausible
- rascal
- roguish
- scheming
- seeming
- serpentine
- shifty
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- unreliable
- wily
devious
adjective. dishonest, crafty
- artful
- calculating
- crooked
- deceitful
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- errant
- erring
- evasive
- faking one out
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- guileful
- indirect
- insidious
- insincere
- not straightforward
- oblique
- obliquitous
- playing games
- playing politics
- put on
- roundabout
- scheming
- shady
- shifty
- shrewd
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhanded
- wily
doubtful
adjective. questionable, unclear
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- clouded
- contingent
- debatable
- dicey
- disreputable
- doubtable
- dubious
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fat chance
- fishy
- hazardous
- hazy
- iffy
- impugnable
- inconclusive
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- insecure
- long shot
- obscure
- on thin ice
- open
- pending
- precarious
- problematic
- shady
- sneaky
- speculative
- suspect
- suspicious
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- uncertain
- unconfirmed
- undecided
- uneasy
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsure
- up for grabs
dubious
adjective. doubtful
- arguable
- chancy
- debatable
- diffident
- disputable
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- hesitant
- iffy
- improbable
- indecisive
- moot
- mootable
- open
- perplexed
- problematic
- questionable
- reluctant
- shady
- skeptical
- suspect
- suspicious
- touch and go
- trustless
- unassured
- uncertain
- unclear
- unconvinced
- undecided
- undependable
- unlikely
- unreliable
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- untrusty
- wavering
equivocal
adjective. doubtful, uncertain
fallacious
adjective. false, wrong
false
adjective. fake, counterfeit
- adulterated
- alloyed
- artificial
- assumed
- bent
- bogus
- brummagem
- bum
- colored
- contrived
- copied
- crock
- deceptive
- disguised
- ersatz
- fabricated
- factitious
- feigned
- fishy
- forged
- framed
- hollow
- imitation
- made-up
- make-believe
- manufactured
- meretricious
- mock
- ostensible
- phony
- pretended
- pseudo
- seeming
- shady
- sham
- simulated
- snide
- so-called
- spurious
- substitute
- synthetic
- unreal
- wrong
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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