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designing

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of designing

clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means

a scheme devised by a group of greedy and designing people

Synonyms of designing

artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, devious, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily

Words Related to designing

astute, facile, glib, sharp

crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous

backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced

circuitous, circular, roundabout

clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover

calculating, plotting

Near Antonyms of designing

obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed

aboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnished

childlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly

unforced, unstudied

trustful, trusting

Antonyms of designing

artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning

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