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Synonyms & Antonyms of wiliness
1
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
- admired the politician's wiliness, but questioned his ethics
Synonyms for wiliness
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- subtlety
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2
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
- her reputation for Machiavellian wiliness made people disinclined to trust her
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“Wiliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiliness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2022.
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