insidiousness

noun

Definition of insidiousnessnext
as in underhandedness

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  1. hypocrisy
  2. perfidy
  3. duplicity
  4. trickery
  5. deception
  6. indirection
  7. cunning
Noun
  • Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell appeared to shade the NFL during a press conference this week when pointing to the apparent hypocrisy of the league’s rules on touchdown celebrations.
    Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Allegations regarding domestic violence, hypocrisy, and authenticity have been par for the course.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.
    Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perfidy
Noun
  • Newly aware of his subordinate’s duplicity, Masa charges at Yuki from his seat among his look-alikes in the audience.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The right-wing press, though, which had sung the praises of Reuss’ performance a few days earlier, now saw confirmation of characteristic Jewish duplicity and demanded that the government charge Reuss with fraud.
    Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of duplicity
Noun
  • Phishing—defined as fraudulent activities that attempt to obtain sensitive information through trickery via emails or websites—is a rampant threat during the holiday season.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • When the play reaches its climax, a moment of haunted stage trickery that’s supposed to thrill and engage us ends up feeling ungrounded and, in its aftermath, bizarrely underacknowledged.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • The series is inspired by the book The Woman Who Fooled the World by journalists Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, who helped uncover the details of Gibson's deception.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • National Socialism, with its unscrupulous methods of deception, took care not to show how radical its aims were until the world was inured to them.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of deception
Noun
  • The title page of the 31-sheet mimeographed pamphlet was designed to hide the contents of the publication and perhaps make a joke about the flowery indirection of the Arabic language.
    Steve Hindy, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2015
  • There may be many other backdoors, but the one everyone is talking about uses the function indirection stuff to add the hook.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024
Definition of indirection
Noun
  • Known for his slow, methodical in-ring style and chilling promos, Roberts played a brilliant heel, often manipulating opponents with his cunning.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The movie’s costume designer Tom Broecker says the change highlights the lethal cunning that lurks below the character’s beauty.
    Alexandra Willingham, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of cunning
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