Synonyms for under-handedness
- noun
Most common
perfidy skulduggery dissimulation deceitfulness deceptiveness
All synonyms
Noun
duplicity, deceit, subterfuge, chicanery, craft, trickery, perfidy, dissimulation, fraudulence, skulduggery, skullduggery US, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, deception, guile, dishonesty, fraudulency dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The characteristic of being underhanded.
Related words
- Other spellings
- underhandedness
Example sentences
- skulduggery This kind of partisan skulduggery has no place in a government agency.
- deceptiveness The deceptiveness of the fake email fooled even careful readers.
By length
- 5 letters
- craft1, guile1
- 6 letters
- deceit2
- 7 letters
- perfidy3
- 8 letters
- trickery3
- 9 letters
- deception3, duplicity4, chicanery4
- 10 letters
- dishonesty4, subterfuge3
- 11 letters
- skulduggery4, fraudulence, fraudulency
- 12 letters
- skullduggery
- 13 letters
- dissimulation, deceitfulness, deceptiveness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deceit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- sournoiserie