Another word for shiftiness | Synonyms for shiftiness

Another word for shiftiness

noun

The act or practice of deceiving:
cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, guile. See honest
Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action:
chicanery, craft, craftiness, deviousness, dishonesty, indirection, shadiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness. See honest

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Cromwell had exhausted every expedient for arriving at an arrangement with the king by which the royal authority might be preserved, and the repeated perfidy and inexhaustible shiftiness of Charles had proved the hopelessness of such attempts.
He had a singular faculty for reading the minds and the motives of men, and to this insight he perhaps owed the power of adaptability (called by his opponents shiftiness) which characterized his whole career.

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