4
shiftiness(noun, cheat, honest, dishonesty, treachery)
4
trickiness(noun, craft, cheat, honest, ripoff)
4
wiliness(noun, craft, cheat, deception, ripoff)
3
casuistry(noun, deception, vision, fantasy, dodge)
3
con(noun, fix, trick, twist, deception)
3
dissimulation(noun, deception, dishonesty, treachery, cunning)
3
equivocation
3
furtiveness(noun, deception, trickery, evasiveness, verbiage)
3
humbug(noun, cheat, trick, charm, deception)
3
jiggery-pokery
3
mischief(noun, deception, fraud, fling)
3
quibbling
3
scheme(noun, trick, cunning, maneuver, craftiness)
3
skullduggery(noun, deception, division, behavior, fraud)
3
sleight of hand(noun, expression, idiom, trick, charm)
3
sneakiness(noun, cheat, honest, dishonesty, treachery)
3
surreptitiousness(noun, skill, deception, trickery, dexterity)
3
swindling(noun, deception, dishonesty, fraud, deceit)
2
art(cunning, craftiness, wiles)
2
artfulness(noun, deception, cunning, deceit, trickery)
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