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wilinessnoun skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded meansadmired the politician's wiliness, but questioned his ethics artfulness, artifice, caginess(also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety calculation, care, designsavvy, sharpness, shrewdnesscleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventivenessease, facility, finessedeceitfulness, duplicity, shiftiness, underhandedness the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickeryher reputation for Machiavellian wiliness made people disinclined to trust her artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevaricationchicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wilefalsehood, falsity, fib, untruthhypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facednessartfulness, caginess(also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdnesstreacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousnesscovertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthinessoiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokennesshonesty, probitydependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthinessdecency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness |