Synonyms of gamesmanship

gamesmanship

noun

as in deception

the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end

that author doesn't go in for literary gamesmanship, so the reader is never led astray by the novel's narrator

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deception
• subterfuge
• skullduggery
• chicanery
• treachery
• deceptiveness
• trickery
• skulduggery
• artfulness
• secrecy
• jugglery
• cunning
• deceit
• stealth
• chicane
• scheming
• legerdemain
• hanky-panky
• jiggery-pokery
• plotting
• artifice
• deceitfulness
• wile
• underhandedness
• deviousness
• duplicity
• shrewdness
• hypocrisy
• sneakiness
• dishonesty
• slipperiness
• insincerity
• shiftiness
• slyness
• double-dealing
• shadiness
• craftiness
• fakery
• slickness
• wiliness
• crookedness
• design
• dissimulation
• guile
• caginess
• oiliness
• quackery
• crookery
• sharpness
• humbuggery
• imposture
• cageyness
• dupery
• foxiness
• dirty pool
• dirty tricks
• guilefulness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sincerity
• artlessness
• forthrightness
• ingenuousness
• guilelessness
• candor
• directness
• openness
• plainness
• candidness
• plainspokenness

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• sincerity
• artlessness
• forthrightness
• ingenuousness
• guilelessness
• candor
• directness
• openness
• plainness
• candidness
• plainspokenness

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