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double-dealing

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of double-dealing

1 marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value

double-dealing business practices that are being investigated by the stateʼs attorney general

Synonyms of double-dealing

crooked, deceitful, defrauding, dishonest, false, fraudulent

Words Related to double-dealing

beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, duplicitous, fallacious, misleading, specious

Near Antonyms of double-dealing

legitimate, true, valid

Antonyms of double-dealing

aboveboard, honest, truthful

2 not being or expressing what one appears to be or express

the double-dealing salesman never told me that the car had been in an accident and repaired

Synonyms of double-dealing

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

Words Related to double-dealing

affected, assumed, claptrap, contrived, forced, mechanical, put-on, simulated, strained, unnatural

empty, hollow, meaningless

deceitful, devious, dishonest, false, untruthful

facile, glib, superficial

campy, facetious, jocular, tongue-in-cheek

canting, pharisaical, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure

Near Antonyms of double-dealing

direct, forthright, frank, heart-to-heart, open, plain, straightforward

Antonyms of double-dealing

artless, candid, genuine, heartfelt, honest, sincere, undesigning, unfeigned

3 given to or marked by cheating and deception

the double-dealing team owners were pitting the two cities against one another, both of whom badly wanted the franchise

Synonyms of double-dealing

bent [chiefly British], crooked, deceptive, dishonest, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, guileful, rogue, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded

Words Related to double-dealing

unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous

deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, false

artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, sly, subtle, wily

defrauding, devious, furtive, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, trickish, tricky

insidious, perfidious, treacherous

Near Antonyms of double-dealing

conscientious, decent, ethical, honorable, just, scrupulous, upright

forthright, straightforward

Antonyms of double-dealing

aboveboard, honest, straight

double-dealing

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of double-dealing

the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery

a go-between suspected of double-dealing

Synonyms of double-dealing

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

Words Related to double-dealing

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

Near Antonyms of double-dealing

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

honesty, probity

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

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

Antonyms of double-dealing

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

Synonym Discussion of double-dealing

deception, fraud, double-dealing, subterfuge, trickery mean the acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives. deception may or may not imply blameworthiness, since it may suggest cheating or merely tactical resource.

- magicians are masters of deception

fraud always implies guilt and often criminality in act or practice.

- indicted for fraud

double-dealing suggests treachery or at least action contrary to a professed attitude.

- a go-between suspected of double-dealing

subterfuge suggests the adoption of a stratagem or the telling of a lie in order to escape guilt or to gain an end.

- obtained the papers by subterfuge

trickery implies ingenious acts intended to dupe or cheat.

- resorted to trickery to gain their ends

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