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artful
Done with, using, or showing much art or skill
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  1. Done with, using, or showing much art or skill
  2. Skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft.
  3. Sly or cunning; crafty
crafty
Skilled in or marked by underhandedness, deviousness, or deception.
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  1. Skilled in or marked by underhandedness, deviousness, or deception.
  2. Subtly deceitful; sly; cunning; artful
  3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
cunning
(Now Rare) Skillful or clever
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  1. (Now Rare) Skillful or clever
  2. Attractive or pretty in a delicate way; cute
  3. Skillful in deception; sly; crafty
foxy
Having the reddish-brown color of a fox
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  1. Having the reddish-brown color of a fox
  2. (Slang) Attractive, stylish, etc.; specif., sexually attractive
  3. Foxlike; crafty; wily; sly
scheming
(Pejorative) Tending to scheme.
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  1. (Pejorative) Tending to scheme.
  2. Given to forming schemes or plots; crafty, tricky, deceitful, etc.
sharp
Abrupt or acute:
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  1. Abrupt or acute:
  2. Strongly affecting the senses of smell and taste:
  3. Fierce or impetuous; violent:
sly
Playfully mischievous:
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  1. Playfully mischievous:
  2. (Dial.) Skillful or clever
  3. Skillful at trickery or deceit; crafty; wily
tricky
Hard to deal with, complicated
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  1. Hard to deal with, complicated
  2. Like a trick in deceptiveness or intricacy
  3. Requiring caution or skill:
wily
Sly, cunning, full of tricks
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  1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks
  2. Full of wiles; crafty; sly
devious
Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
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  1. Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
  2. Not straightforward; shifty:
  3. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout:
disingenuous
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
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  1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
  2. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating:
  3. Slyly deceptive or misleading, typically by means of a pretense of ignorance or unawareness
duplicitous
Having duplicity; deceitful
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  1. Having duplicity; deceitful
  2. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
indirect
Diverging from a direct course; roundabout.
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  1. Diverging from a direct course; roundabout.
  2. Not directly planned for; secondary:
  3. Not direct
lubricious
Having a slippery or smooth quality:
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  1. Having a slippery or smooth quality:
  2. Full of or displaying sexual desire:
  3. Sexually stimulating; salacious:
shifty
Distinguished by frequent changes in direction:
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  1. Distinguished by frequent changes in direction:
  2. (Informal) Having or showing a tricky or deceitful nature; evasive
  3. Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy.
sneaky
Dishonest; deceitful
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  1. Dishonest; deceitful
  2. Of or like a sneak; underhanded
  3. Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries
underhand
(in various ball games, of a ball) thrown etc with the hand brought forward and up from below
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  1. (in various ball games, of a ball) thrown etc with the hand brought forward and up from below
  2. (By extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner
  3. Dishonest and sneaky; underhanded.
underhanded
Underhand:
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  1. Underhand:
  2. Acting or done in a deceptive, secret, or sly manner; dishonest and sneaky.
  3. Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
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