INSIDIOUSNESS Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

insidiousness

noun

as in underhandedness

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Recent Examples of insidiousness Thankfully, Leviticus has a good grasp on how to leverage this conceit for scares and to score points about the insidiousness of mistaking hatred for salvation. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026 Without ever using the words, this House of the Dragon season evokes all-too-real fears about police funding, abridgment of freedom of speech and the insidiousness of theocratic rule. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026

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Noun

The speech is also a kind of litmus test for translators and adaptors, an opportunity for a politically progressive character to let rip not simply against general human hypocrisy but against the particular sins of a moment.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
The title references an Islamic hadith that is meant to shine a light on Ali’s character’s moral hypocrisies and the religious fanatics who surround him in the film.

— John Ross, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of hypocrisy

Noun

Platner, indeed, has boiled down nearly all political problems to the perfidy of sinister oligarchs.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
If the landing had been faked, the Soviets would have figured it out and would have loved to reveal to the world America’s perfidy.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026

Definition of perfidy

Noun

David Sacks, former tech investor and White House AI and crypto czar, has an excellent counterpoint that could explain the apparent duplicity of Dario's manifesto.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2026
There’s a method to that madness, and all the duplicity, false assumptions pay off just like in an Agatha Christie classic.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of duplicity

Noun

Course designer Leopoldo Palacios’s influential track featured a rollback to the water tray — a bit of trickery that Palacios had famously used at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and had shelved since.

— Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Extremism, in both parties, is a tool of propagandists trying to win elections through trickery.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of trickery

Noun

Leaders managing autonomous agent deployments across enterprise environments have spent years auditing outputs for compliance, deception vectors and guardrail breaches.

— Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Those charges cover a wide range of behaviors related to schemes in which money or property is obtained through deception and interstate electronic communications.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of deception

Noun

In 1990, Cole meets Jeffrey Goines, a fellow mental institution patient played with bug-eyed slipperiness by Brad Pitt, whose performance nabbed him his first Oscar nod.

— Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
That factual slipperiness might matter less if the psychology connected more deeply.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of slipperiness

Noun

This will reveal how customers feel about your brand, their preferred communication methods and the smoothness of their customer experience.

— Natalie Ruiz, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
That harmony makes all the difference—Cygnet 22 delivers a martini with remarkable smoothness, depth, and elegance that is difficult to match.

— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2026

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