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double-dealingadjective marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuedouble-dealing business practices that are being investigated by the state's attorney general crooked, deceitful, defrauding, dishonest, false, fraudulent beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, duplicitous, fallacious, misleading, speciousspurious aboveboard, honest, truthful legitimate, true, valid not being or expressing what one appears to be or expressthe double-dealing salesman never told me that the car had been in an accident and repaired artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-faced, fake, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, Janus-faced, jive(slang), left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, Pecksniffian, phony(also phoney), phony-baloney(or phoney-baloney), pretended, two-faced, unctuous affected, assumed, claptrap, contrived, forced, mechanical, put-on, simulated, strained, unnaturalempty, hollow, meaninglessdeceitful, devious, dishonest, false, untruthfulfacile, glib, superficialbogus, shamcampy, facetious, jocular, tongue-in-cheekcanting, pharisaical, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure artless, candid, genuine, heartfelt, honest, sincere, undesigning, unfeigned direct, forthright, frank, heart-to-heart, open, plain, straightforward given to or marked by cheating and deceptionthe double-dealing team owners were pitting the two cities against one another, both of whom badly wanted the franchise bent(chiefly British), crooked, deceptive, dishonest, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, guileful, rogue, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulousdeceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, falseartful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, sly, subtle, wilydefrauding, devious, furtive, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, trickish, trickyinsidious, perfidious, treacherous aboveboard, honest, straight conscientious, decent, ethical, honorable, just, scrupulous, uprightforthright, straightforward double-dealingnounthe inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickerya go-between suspected of double-dealing artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, 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 n.deception, fraud, double-dealing, subterfuge, trickery mean the acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives.deception may or may not imply blameworthiness, since it may suggest cheating or merely tactical resource.magicians are masters of deception fraud always implies guilt and often criminality in act or practice.indicted for fraud double-dealing suggests treachery or at least action contrary to a professed attitude.a go-between suspected of double-dealing subterfuge suggests the adoption of a stratagem or the telling of a lie in order to escape guilt or to gain an end.obtained the papers by subterfuge trickery implies ingenious acts intended to dupe or cheat.resorted to trickery to gain their ends in 1529 |