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Synonyms of subtlety
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
- we appreciated the subtlety with which our host indicated that it was time to leave: he volunteered to pack us a little lunch for the road
Synonyms for subtlety
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- wiliness
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The first known use of subtlety was in the 14th century
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