guile
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(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
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Synonyms: chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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Related Words: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, jugglery, put-on |
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(noun) the quality of being crafty |
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Synonyms: craftiness, deceitfulness |
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Related Words: disingenuousness |
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(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception |
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Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
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Related Words: astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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