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Synonyms of deviousness
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
- his deviousness was almost as awesome as his lack of scruples
Synonyms for deviousness
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- wiliness
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