shiftiness

  • 81unreliability — Synonyms and related words: capriciousness, chanciness, changeableness, coquettishness, credibility gap, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, deviability, doubtfulness, dubiousness, eccentricity, erraticism, faddishness, faddism,… …

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  • 82variability — Synonyms and related words: arrhythmia, brokenness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disorder, divarication …

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  • 83variation — Synonyms and related words: Nachtmusik, Proteus, aberrancy, aberration, about face, absolute music, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, altering, alternation,… …

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  • 84variety — Synonyms and related words: Broadway, Proteus, a certain number, a few, about face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, affiliation, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assortment, betterment, biotype, blood, body,… …

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  • 85wile — Synonyms and related words: Italian hand, Machiavellianism, acuteness, allure, ambidexterity, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, bad faith, bag of tricks, beguile, bestow, bewitch, blind, bluff, bosey, cageyness, callidity,… …

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  • 86wit — Synonyms and related words: ESP, IQ, Italian hand, ability, acumen, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, alertness, apprehension, art, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistry, assume, astuteness, awareness, balance, banana,… …

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  • 87VOLTAIRE, FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE —    great French persifleur and Coryphæus of Deism, born in Paris, son of a lawyer; trained to scoff at religion from his boyhood, and began his literary career as a satirist and in the production of lampoons which cost him twice over imprisonment …

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  • 88chicanery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trickery (See deception, cunning). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deception, trickery, sophistry, cheating; see deception 1 , dishonesty . See Synonym Study at deception . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …

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  • 89craft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. skill, expertise; art, handicraft; trade; vessel, ship, boat; cunning, artfulness, deceit, trickery. See business. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Skill] Syn. proficiency, competence, adeptness; see ability 2 …

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  • 90cunning — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Craftiness Nouns 1. cunning, craft, craftiness, canniness, wit; gumption; slyness, artifice, art; subtlety, finesse, maneuvering; diplomacy, Machiavellianism, politics; resourcefulness; Jesuitry;… …

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