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121fox — Foxes were common in Palestine, and Ezekiel lambasts false prophets as foxes (AV; ‘jackals’, NRSV, REB, NJB), that is, scavengers who hope to profit from the ruin of the nation (Ezek. 13:4). In the NT the fox is not so much a symbol of slyness,… …
122artifice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trick, stratagem, ruse; device; cunning. See deception. Ant., candor, innocence. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Maneuver] Syn. stratagem, trick, wile, ruse; see trick 1 . 2. [Trickery] Syn. guile, cunning,… …
123chicanery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trickery (See deception, cunning). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deception, trickery, sophistry, cheating; see deception 1 , dishonesty . See Synonym Study at deception . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …
124concealment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Keeping secret Nouns 1. concealment; hiding[ place]; curtain, screen, blind; smokescreen, ambush, camouflage; hideaway, hideout, sanctum sanctorum, safe house; secret passage or exit, back or side door,… …
125secret — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Kept private Nouns secret; dead secret, profound secret; mystery; sealed or closed book; skeleton in the closet; confidence; hidden agenda; problem, enigma, riddle, puzzle, crossword puzzle, [double]… …
126sly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cunning, furtive, wily; crafty, deceitful, stealthy, underhand; roguish, mischievous. See concealment. Ant., artless. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Crafty] Syn. wily, tricky, foxy, shifty, insidious,… …
127trickery — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deception, dupery, fraud, quackery; see deception 1 , dishonesty . See Synonym Study at deception . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. deception, deceit, subterfuge, cheating, fraud, hoax, imposture, delusion, artifice,… …
128artfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Deceitful cleverness: art, artifice, craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness. See HONEST, MEANS …
