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double-dealing
Synonyms and Antonyms of double-dealing
- double-dealing business practices that are being investigated by the state's attorney general
- The double-dealing salesman never told me that the car had been in an accident and repaired.
artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-faced, fake, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, phony (also phoney), pretended, two-faced, unctuous
- The double-dealing team owners were pitting the two cities against one another, both of whom badly wanted the franchise.
double-dealing
Synonyms and Antonyms of double-dealing
- a go-between suspected of double-dealing
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication
chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, 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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