shiftiness
111shifty — adjective informal looking dishonest and slightly nervous: a shifty looking little man | shifty eyes shiftily adverb shiftiness noun (U) …
112crooked — crooked, devious, oblique mean not straight or straightforward. Crooked may imply the presence of material curves, turns, or bends {a crooked back} {a crooked road} {the crooked trunk of a tree} In its frequent extended use it applies especially… …
113escape — vb 1 Escape, flee, fly, decamp, abscond mean to run away especially from something which limits one s freedom or threatens one s well being. Escape so stresses the idea of flight from confinement or restraint that it very often conveys no… …
114sly — sly, cunning, crafty, tricky, foxy, insidious, wily, guileful, artful are comparable when they mean having or showing a disposition to attain one s ends by devious or indirect means. Sly implies a lack of candor which shows itself in… …
115astuteness — n 1. perception, discernment, penetration; perspicacity, percipience, appercipience, discrimination; acuteness, keenness, acumen, quickness, sharpness; sagacity, judiciousness, wisdom, sapience, mother wit, wits; intelligence, understanding,… …
116dishonesty — n 1. falsity, mendacity, untruthfulness, lying, prevaricating; duplicity, double dealing, hypocrisy; disingenuousness, insincerity, improbity; deceit, cheating, crookedness, deviousness, knavery, roguery, rascality, villainy; dirty pool, dirty… …
117fickleness — n 1. capriciousness, fancifulness, giddiness, facetiousness; changeableness, mutability, moodiness; impulsiveness, impetuosity, erraticalness. 2. indecision, uncertainty, irresolution, wishy washiness. 3. inconstancy, unfaithfulness, disloyalty;… …
118guile — n cunning, duplicity, fraud, deception, deceit, subtlety, gamesmanship; artfulness, wiliness, slyness, foxiness, guilefulness, craftiness, wiles; finesse, shrewdness, slickness, shiftiness, insidious ness; chicanery, jugglery, skulduggery,… …
119insincerity — n 1. disingenuousness, uncandidness, unfrankness, mealy mouthedness; artificiality, Inf. phoniness, dissembling, dissimulation, cant, lip service, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, flattery, smooth talk; deceit fulness, dishonesty, underhandedness,… …
120lubricity — n 1. oiliness, slipperiness, greasiness, slitheriness; smoothness, sleekness, glassiness, glossiness, skiddiness, iciness; soapiness, waxiness, butteriness, unctuousness, oleaginousness, mucosity. 2. instability, unsteadiness, inconstancy,… …
