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wiliness
Synonyms and Antonyms of wiliness
1
skill in achieving oneʼs ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety
2
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication
chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile
falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth
hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness
artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness
treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness
oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness
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