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 artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunningness, cunning, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety, wilinessRelated Words calculation, care, design; savvy, sharpness, shrewdness; cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness; ease, facility, finesse; deceitfulness, duplicity, shiftiness, underhandedness