treacherousness

noun

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as in underhandedness

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  1. underhandedness
  2. secrecy
  3. shrewdness
  4. hypocrisy
  5. artfulness
  6. stealthiness
  7. shadiness
  8. deviousness
Noun
  • Frustrated but persistent, about seven hundred of the twelve hundred agents that participated in the board collaborated in what was essentially a cybersecurity version of capture the flag, a war game in which underhandedness is rewarded.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of underhandedness
Noun
  • Like his other collecting trips, the Bolivian mission for Merck was full of secrecy, sleuthing, and backroom deals.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Nov. 2026
  • The secrecy also gave her time to take on the creative challenge.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of secrecy
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  • Spain’s shrewdness came in their refusal to engage with off-the-ball trivialities.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Instead, Franklin will rise by virtue of hard work and (actual) shrewdness.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
Definition of shrewdness
Noun
  • Anthropic’s decision to heavily redact the report, citing grounds that revealing more could help its rivals accelerate their own development, has fueled accusations of hypocrisy.
    — Robert Hart, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Regardless of the validity of the investigation, the mass-resignation exposes the hypocrisy of Georgia police, who have access to perhaps the largest public-private surveillance operation in US history.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • The term seems to imply a mastery of all the resources of a form, displayed in a surprising context without self-conscious artfulness.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • No need to get bogged down in questions about provenance, artfulness, long-form storytelling, or even metaphors.
    — Robin Givhan, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of artfulness
Noun
  • Alois Ruf is a modest man who has grown the family business—Porsche optimization—with a steely stealthiness and notable technical ambition.
    — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 13 July 2026
  • But what surprised me most about these curls was the stealthiness of the burn.
    — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Definition of stealthiness
Noun
  • But the gossipy tidbits almost pale next to the eye-opening shadiness of some of the business strategies.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The actor earned breakout status thanks to perfecting a mix of faux-friendliness and corporate shadiness on Severance, and that combo is put to extremely good use here.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026
Definition of shadiness
Noun
  • Focus on either your high level of integrity or your deviousness.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The piece urges critical inquiry into such claims, emphasizing that human oversight, not AI's inherent deviousness, can be a sizable contributor.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of deviousness
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