underhandedness
31dishonesty — I noun bad faith, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deviation from probity, dishonor, disingenuousness, disposition to deceive, disposition to defraud, disposition ro lie, duplicity …
32false pretense — I noun act, affectation, affectedness, artifice, artificiality, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, circumvention of truth, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptive representation of fact, delusion, designed misrepresentation, device, disguise,… …
33illegality — il·le·gal·i·ty /ˌi li ga lə tē/ n pl ties 1: the quality or state of being illegal 2: an illegal action Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
34improbity — I noun artfulness, breach of trust, corruption, craftiness, crookedness, deceit, deceitfulness, deviousness, dishonesty, disingenuity, disingenuousness, duplicity, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, furtiveness, graft …
35indirection — I (deceitfulness) noun concealment of truth, cozenage, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, deviousness, dishonesty, disingenuity, disingenuousness, dissimulation, duplicity, falsehood, falseness, fraud, fraudulency, guile, hypocrisy,… …
36intrigue, interest — Each of these words means to cause to become involved with, to arouse the curiosity or hold the attention of: Your plan interests me. Your plan intrigues me. However, some experts object to the use of intrigue for interest on the ground that it… …
37artfulness — Synonyms and related words: Gongorism, Italian hand, ability, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, affectation, affectedness, airmanship, animal cunning, art, artifice, artificiality, artisanship, artistry, astuteness, bravura, brilliance,… …
38artifice — Synonyms and related words: Gongorism, Italian hand, Machiavellianism, action, acuteness, ad hoc measure, adeptness, adroitness, affectation, affectedness, ambidexterity, answer, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artificiality, astuteness, bad faith …
39chicane — Synonyms and related words: artifice, bamboozle, befool, cavil, chicanery, dishonesty, double dealing, feint, flimflam, fool, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, gull, hanky panky, hoax, hoodwink, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, stratagem,… …
40chicanery — Synonyms and related words: art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, baseness, bickering, blind, bluff, boggling, bosey, captiousness, catch, caviling, cheating, chicane, chouse, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup …
