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(adj)
Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious.
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Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
Sly, cunning, full of tricks.
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.
Hard to deal with, complicated.
Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Unsound and unreliable.
Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
(informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
Of a person, displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
Capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently.
Shrewd or crafty.
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
(obsolete) Sly; crafty; cunning.
Having a lively or creative imagination.
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
Highly intelligent.
Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
Resembling or characteristic of a fox.
Involving both hands.
Deliberately misleading or cheating.
Dishonest; deceitful.
deceptive
Like a trickster; cunning; mischievous.
Using tricks or trickery.
Likely or attempting to deceive.
(now rare) Deceptive; using trickery.
Employing or relating to deception; deceptive.
(archaic) deceptive
(n)
Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
Obsolete form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
Archaic form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
Devious; passive-aggressive.
(of a person) Cheating, dishonest; treacherous.
Scheming; cunning; devious.
Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
manipulative
(rare) Involving skulduggery; tricky, underhand.
(idiomatic) Mischievous and playful.
A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
Tending to manipulate.
Having been tricked or deceived.
Deceptive or misleading.
Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
The workplace of a knacker; a knacker's yard.
Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
A non-genuine article; a fake.
(dated) Able to be deceived.
Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
Characteristic of a sham; deceitful
Not ingenuous; not frank or open.
The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.
(informal) characteristic of deceit and treachery
(rare, historical, law) Deceitful, with hidden malice.
(rare) Dishonest, deceptive, misleading.
Unreliable; dangerous.
Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.
Alternative form of schemey. [Scheming; cunning; devious.]
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Deceit; treachery.
(rare) Very manipulative.
Under an illusion; deceived.
That plays hooky.
(informal) Involving cheating; fraudulent.
Involving or characteristic of sneakers.
Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
(v)
Misconstruction of conniving.
A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies.
Falsely assembled; faked.
Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
Contrived; dishonestly formulated so as to appear authentic.
Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
Secret or underhand; not openly avowed.
(archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
That can be misled.
Low or reduced in price.
A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.
(rare) Untruthful; lying.
Tending to prevaricate.
(proscribed) Disingenuous.
Not honest; shoddy.
Employing the tactic of diversionism.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
(informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.