underhandedness

noun

Definition of underhandednessnext
as in treachery

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underhandedness
  1. treachery
  2. subterfuge
  3. chicanery
  4. skulduggery
  5. duplicity
  6. trickery
  7. hypocrisy
  8. gamesmanship
Noun
  • Yet Milady and her treachery have for nearly 200 years always stood out.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of treachery
Noun
  • In the past, Yellowstone characters have pulled off relatively elaborate acts of subterfuge and scheming with multilayered plans that need lots of arguing and surprise twists and time — like, several episodes’ worth of time.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This content, much of it clearly generated by AI rather than intended to deceive—a medium of crude self-expression, not sophisticated subterfuge—may have been the technology’s biggest impact on the 2024 presidential election.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • There’s still a lot of baseball chicanery to take place over the next few months, though.
    Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
  • The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of chicanery
Noun
  • Climax became the first ever vegan cheesemaker to win a prestigious Good Food award—though dairy complaints caused the prize to be rescinded at the last minute, with shades of the protectionist, legal skulduggery faced by non-dairy milk products.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
  • There are many reasons beyond cheating and skulduggery that someone might root or modify their Android device.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
Definition of skulduggery
Noun
  • This helps Harrow’s case, but getting hard evidence of Valya’s duplicity will help even more.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Zach Bannon, a spokesman for Hovde, accused Baldwin of duplicity for, in effect, saying one thing about price gouging in the Senate and doing another with her campaign fund.
    Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of duplicity
Noun
  • Background/foreground blur and other in-camera trickery are used to great effect.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The game had a little bit of everything, including a little trickery at the end when the Ducks left an extra man on the field defensively in an attempt to drain some precious time from the clock while Ohio State tried to make a last-minute winning drive.
    Ralph D. Russo, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • Situating them in a real abbey, Rabelais marshaled them as evidence of hypocrisy.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Her elevation to the Lords drew quiet grumbles about hypocrisy from Conservatives.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • The political games that were played with the release of this study only serve to reinforce the impression many have held since the permitting pause was imposed in January, which is that the entire thing has from Day One been an exercise in political gamesmanship.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • This understandable bit of gamesmanship has unintended consequences.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of gamesmanship
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