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Contents
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English
1.1
Adjective
1.1.1
Sense: full of tricks or stratagems designed to deceive
1.1.1.1
Synonyms
1.1.1.2
Antonyms
1.1.1.3
Hypernyms
1.2
See also
1.3
External links
English
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Adjective
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Sense: full of tricks or stratagems designed to deceive
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Synonyms
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astute
artful
cautelous
(
obsolete
)
crafty
cunning
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
foxlike
foxy
frood
(
Scotland
,
Northern England
)
guileful
shrewd
slim
(
now South Africa
)
sly
subtle
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⇒ thesaurus
]
tricky
vulpine
wily
Antonyms
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guileless
gullible
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]
honest
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⇒ thesaurus
]
ingenuous
naive
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⇒ thesaurus
]
unwise
Hypernyms
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deceitful
intelligent
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⇒ thesaurus
]
See also
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Thesaurus:cunning
Thesaurus:intelligent
Thesaurus:learned
Thesaurus:wise
External links
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“
702. cunning
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
wily
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.
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