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cunningadjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansa cunning, underhanded plan to win the election by preying on people's fears and prejudices artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting skillful with the handsonly the most cunning cabinetmaker could have crafted such a beautifully proportioned chest of drawers clever, deft, dexterous(also dextrous), handy agile, flexible, graceful, limber, lissome(also lissom), lithe, lithesome, nimble, sprycoordinatedable, adept, capable, competent, expert, habile, masterful, masterly, proficient, qualified, skilled, skillful, sure-handeddouble-jointed, loose-jointed butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, unhandy awkward, bungling, clumsy, fumbling, gauche, gawky, graceless, klutzy, rough-hewn, stiff, stilted, uncomfortable, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful, woodenuncoordinatedincapable, incompetent, inept, inexpert, maladroit skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded meansthe cunning with which Tom Sawyer was able to get others to whitewash the fence for him artfulness, artifice, caginess(also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety, wiliness calculation, care, designsavvy, sharpness, shrewdnesscleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventivenessease, facility, finessedeceitfulness, duplicity, shiftiness, underhandedness subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing somethingthe unmatched cunning of the scout who led them safely through the trackless wilderness adeptness, adroitness, art, artfulness, artifice, artistry, cleverness, craft, deftness, masterfulness, skill, skillfulness dexterity, ease, finesse, handinessexperience, expertise, expertness, know-how, proficiencycreativity, ingenuity, inventiveness, knowledge, learningaptitude, bent, flair, gift, knack, talent artlessness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness amateurishness, awkwardness, clumsiness, crudeness, klutziness, rudenessinability, inadequacy, inadequateness, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inefficiency the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickeryused cunning and subterfuge to lure unwitting victims into the fraudulent scheme artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness 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 adj.clever, adroit, cunning, ingenious mean having or showing practical wit or skill in contriving.clever stresses physical or mental quickness, deftness, or great aptitude.a person clever with horses adroit often implies a skillful use of expedients to achieve one's purpose in spite of difficulties.an adroit negotiator cunning implies great skill in constructing or creating.a filmmaker cunning in his use of special effects ingenious suggests the power of inventing or discovering a new way of accomplishing something.an ingenious software engineer n.art, skill, cunning, artifice, craft mean the faculty of executing well what one has devised.art implies a personal, unanalyzable creative power.the art of choosing the right word skill stresses technical knowledge and proficiency.the skill of a glassblower cunning suggests ingenuity and subtlety in devising, inventing, or executing.a mystery plotted with great cunning artifice suggests technical skill especially in imitating things in nature.believed realism in film could be achieved only by artifice craft may imply expertness in workmanship.the craft of a master goldsmith in the 14th century |