n. 25B6; adjective a cunning scheme : CRAFTY, wily, artful, guileful, devious, sly, scheming, designing, calculating, Machiavellian; shrewd, astute, clever, canny; deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous; informal foxy; archaic subtle.
honest.
25B6; noun his political cunning : GUILE, craftiness, deviousness, slyness, trickery, duplicity; shrewdness, astuteness.