n.
Function: noun
Synonyms: DECEPTION 1, chicanery, dishonesty, double-dealing, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, highbinding, sharp practice, trickery
Related Words: artifice, feint, gambit, maneuver, ploy, ruse, stratagem, trick, wile; furtiveness, surreptitiousness, underhandedness
Contrasted Words: forthrightness, straightforwardness