209 entries under adjective topic. ×
| shifty(honest, false, dishonest, deceitful) | |
| subsidiary(noun, inferior, subordinate, secondary) | |
| twisting(noun, bent, crooked, devious) | |
| winding(verb, irregular, bent, crooked) | |
| anfractuous(straight, winding) | |
| circumlocutory(rambling, circuitous, tortuous, unintended) | |
| deceitful(false, dishonest, cunning, shrewd) | |
| discursive(deviation, rambling, circuitous, tortuous) | |
| implied(slight, obscure, fine, thin) | |
| periphrastic(rambling, circuitous, tortuous, unintended) | |
| serpentine(bent, crooked, sly, devious) | |
| sidelong(subordinate, rambling, incidental, circuitous) | |
| wandering(rambling, circuitous, tortuous, unintended) | |
| ambagious | |
| ancillary(inferior, minor, subordinate, secondary) | |
| complicated(noun, rambling, devious, circuitous) | |
| underhanded(honest, false, dishonest, cunning) | |
| vicarious(inferior, last, minor, subordinate) | |
| ambiguous(false, dishonest, deceitful, unreliable) | |
| backhanded |
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