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double-dealing
Synonyms and Antonyms of double-dealing
1
marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value
2
not being or expressing what one appears to be or express
artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-faced, fake, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, Janus-faced, jive [slang], left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, Pecksniffian, phony (also phoney), phony-baloney (or phoney-baloney), pretended, two-faced, unctuous
3
given to or marked by cheating and deception
bent [chiefly British], crooked, deceptive, dishonest, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, guileful, rogue, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded
double-dealing
Synonyms and Antonyms of double-dealing
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication
chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, 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
Synonym Discussion of double-dealing
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- magicians are masters of deception
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- indicted for fraud
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- a go-between suspected of double-dealing
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- obtained the papers by subterfuge
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- resorted to trickery to gain their ends
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