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slyness
noun as in indirection
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
Example Sentences
"Certainly sometimes discretion is the better part of recollection," giving her a look of great slyness as he spoke.
He had already acquired the wisdom, or perhaps in his case slyness is a better word, of years by the time that he came to us.
Tears,' said Job, with a look of momentary slyness—'tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones.'
A gleam of gratified slyness lit up the haggardness of Northwick's face.
As a means of settling this conflict there occurs to him an experiment which he executes with slyness and restored courage.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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