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subtleadjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansused subtle methods of persuasion artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, 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 made or done with extreme care and accuracythe subtle strokes of the painter's brush delicate, exact, fine, finespun, hairline, hairsplitting, minute, nice, nuanced, refined nitpicking, quibblingfrivolous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, negligible, petty, piddling, trifling, trivialdemanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, meticulous, particular, picky coarse, inexact, rough apparent, clear, clear-cut, evident, manifest, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perspicuous, plain, transparent, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakablebroad, indefinitecareless, heedless, incautious, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy satisfying or pleasing because of fineness or mildnessa subtle suggestion of the Near East in the soup's flavoring airy, dainty, delicate, exquisite, nuanced, refined choice, elegant, extraordinary, incomparable, peerless, preeminent, prime, rare, select, superior, superlative, supreme, transcendent, unsurpassedpicked, selectedfine, fragile, frail robust, strong, sturdy coarse, crude, roughcommon, ordinaryaverage, fair, indifferent, mediocre, medium, middling, run-of-the-mill, second-rate in the 14th century |