deceit

Synonyms

artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness;

Antonyms

artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity;

Near Antonyms

candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness;

honesty, probity;

dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness;

decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness;

Related Words

equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication;

chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile;

falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth;

hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness;

artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness;

treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness;

covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness;

oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness;