deceitfulness

The word “deceitfulness” has 4 syllables: de-ceit-ful-ness

It's pronounced as /dɪˈsiːtfʊlnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for deceitfulness?

In the thesaurus, “deceitfulness” has 75 synonyms and 41 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for deceitfulness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for deceitfulness

  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • covertness
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceit
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • deviousness
  • dishonesty
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • equivocation
  • fakery
  • falsehood
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • fib
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • furtiveness
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hanky-panky
  • hypocrisy
  • insincerity
  • jugglery
  • knavery
  • legerdemain
  • lying
  • mendaciousness
  • mendacity
  • mountebankery
  • obliquity
  • oiliness
  • prevarication
  • sanctimoniousness
  • secrecy
  • shadiness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoothness
  • sneakiness
  • stealthiness
  • subterfuge
  • swindling
  • treacherousness
  • trickery
  • trickishness
  • two-facedness
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • untruth
  • untruthfulness
  • wile
  • wiliness

Antonyms for deceitfulness

  • accuracy
  • artlessness
  • authenticity
  • candidness
  • candor
  • correctness
  • credibility
  • decency
  • dependability
  • directness
  • forthrightness
  • frankness
  • genuineness
  • good faith
  • goodness
  • guilelessness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • incorruptibility
  • ingenuousness
  • integrity
  • objectivity
  • openness
  • plainness
  • plainspokenness
  • probity
  • reliability
  • reliableness
  • righteousness
  • sincerity
  • solidity
  • straightforwardness
  • trustability
  • trustiness
  • trustworthiness
  • truthfulness
  • uprightness
  • veraciousness
  • veracity
  • verity
  • virtuousness

Example Sentences

  • The deceitfulness of his actions was revealed during the investigation.
  • The company faced severe backlash due to the deceitfulness of its advertising campaign.
  • She was hurt by the deceitfulness of someone she had trusted for years.
  • His career ended after his deceitfulness became known to the public.
  • The novel explores themes of love and betrayal, focusing on the deceitfulness between characters.

On this page you'll find 116 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to deceitfulness, such as: accuracy, artfulness, artifice, artlessness, authenticity, cageyness, caginess.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

bad faith

  • adultery
  • affair
  • affectation
  • apostasy
  • artifice
  • beguilement
  • betrayal
  • betrayal of trust
  • bigotry
  • breach of faith
  • breach of privilege
  • breach of promise
  • breach of trust
  • breaking of faith
  • cant
  • casuistry
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • cozenage
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • defection
  • dereliction
  • disaffection
  • dishonesty
  • disloyalty
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double cross
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • equivocation
  • exaggeration
  • extramarital relations
  • faithlessness
  • fakery
  • false profession
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • fickleness
  • foul play
  • fourberie
  • fraud
  • fraudulentness
  • furtiveness
  • glibness
  • guile
  • hanky-panky
  • hypocrisy
  • imposture
  • improbity
  • inaccuracy
  • inconstancy
  • indirection
  • infidelity
  • insidiousness
  • insincerity
  • irreverence
  • lewdness
  • lie
  • lip service
  • lying
  • mendaciousness
  • mendacity
  • mockery
  • oiliness
  • perfidiousness
  • perfidy
  • pharisaicalness
  • pharisaism
  • phoniness
  • pietism
  • prevarication
  • quackery
  • recreancy
  • sanctimoniousness
  • sanctimony
  • sedition
  • seditiousness
  • sharp practice
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoothness
  • speciousness
  • subversive activity
  • tartuffery
  • treacherousness
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trickery
  • two-facedness
  • two-timing
  • unctuousness
  • underhandedness
  • unfaithfulness
  • unscrupulousness
  • untrueness
  • untruthfulness
  • violation
  • wiliness

cageyness

  • acumen
  • art
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • astuteness
  • bettering
  • calculation
  • canniness
  • care
  • clear-sightedness
  • cleverness
  • competition
  • competitive advantage
  • competitive edge
  • contrivance
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • cutthroat
  • deceitfulness
  • design
  • deviousness
  • discernment
  • disingenuity
  • duplicity
  • ease
  • facility
  • finesse
  • foxiness
  • gamesmanship
  • gray matter
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hardheadedness
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • insight
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • inventiveness
  • keenness
  • knowingness
  • outfoxing
  • outsmarting
  • outwitting
  • perception
  • perceptiveness
  • perceptivity
  • percipience
  • reason
  • rivaling
  • ruse
  • sagaciousness
  • sagacity
  • sageness
  • sapience
  • savvy
  • sense
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • slickness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • subterfuge
  • subtleness
  • subtlety
  • trickery
  • underhandedness
  • wiles
  • wiliness
  • wisdom
  • wit

caginess

  • acumen
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • astuteness
  • calculation
  • canniness
  • care
  • chicanery
  • clear-sightedness
  • cleverness
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceitfulness
  • design
  • deviousness
  • discernment
  • duplicity
  • ease
  • facility
  • finesse
  • foxiness
  • gray matter
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hardheadedness
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • insight
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • inventiveness
  • keenness
  • knowingness
  • perception
  • perceptiveness
  • perceptivity
  • percipience
  • reason
  • sagaciousness
  • sagacity
  • sageness
  • sapience
  • savvy
  • sense
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • slickness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • subtleness
  • subtlety
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • underhandedness
  • wiliness
  • wisdom
  • wit

canniness

  • Fabian policy
  • ability
  • acumen
  • adroitness
  • anticipation
  • art
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • astuteness
  • attention
  • bettering
  • brains
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • calculation
  • care
  • carefulness
  • caution
  • cautiousness
  • chariness
  • chicanery
  • circumspection
  • clairvoyance
  • clear-sightedness
  • cleverness
  • competition
  • competitive advantage
  • competitive edge
  • concern
  • considerateness
  • consideration
  • contrivance
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • cutthroat
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deliberation
  • design
  • deviousness
  • dexterity
  • diplomacy
  • discernment
  • discreetness
  • discretion
  • discrimination
  • disingenuity
  • duplicity
  • ease
  • economy
  • facility
  • far-sightedness
  • finesse
  • flair
  • foreknowledge
  • foresight
  • forethought
  • foxiness
  • frugality
  • gamesmanship
  • gift
  • good sense
  • gray matter
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • gumption
  • hardheadedness
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • insight
  • insurance
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • inventiveness
  • judgment
  • judiciousness
  • keenness
  • knowingness
  • long-sightedness
  • maturity
  • moderation
  • observation
  • outfoxing
  • outsmarting
  • outwitting
  • perception
  • perceptiveness
  • perceptivity
  • percipience
  • perspicacity
  • planning
  • precaution
  • precognition
  • preconception
  • premeditation
  • premonition
  • prenotion
  • prescience
  • presence of mind
  • prospect
  • protection
  • providence
  • provision
  • prudence
  • quick wit
  • quickness
  • reason
  • regard
  • resourcefulness
  • responsibility
  • restraint
  • rivaling
  • ruse
  • safeguard
  • safety measure
  • sagaciousness
  • sagacity
  • sageness
  • sapience
  • savvy
  • sense
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skill
  • slickness
  • slyness
  • smartness
  • sneakiness
  • solicitude
  • sophrosyne
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • subterfuge
  • subtleness
  • subtlety
  • tact
  • talent
  • temperance
  • thought
  • thoughtfulness
  • thrift
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • underhandedness
  • vigilance
  • wariness
  • warning
  • watchfulness
  • wiles
  • wiliness
  • wisdom
  • wit

deceit

  • ambidexterity
  • ambidextrousness
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • blind
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • covertness
  • cozenage
  • cozening
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crocodile tears
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • defrauding
  • deviousness
  • dirty dealing
  • dirty pool
  • dirty trick
  • dirty work
  • dishonesty
  • dissemblance
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • entrapping
  • equivocation
  • fake
  • fakery
  • falsehood
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • feint
  • fib
  • flimflam
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • furtiveness
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hanky-panky
  • hoax
  • humbug
  • hypocrisy
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • jugglery
  • legerdemain
  • lying
  • mendaciousness
  • mendacity
  • misrepresentation
  • mountebankery
  • obliquity
  • oiliness
  • overreaching
  • pretense
  • prevarication
  • ruse
  • sanctimoniousness
  • secrecy
  • sell
  • sellout
  • shadiness
  • sham
  • shift
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoke and mirrors
  • smoothness
  • sneakiness
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • spoof
  • stealthiness
  • stratagem
  • subterfuge
  • sweet-talk
  • swindle
  • swindling
  • trapping
  • treacherousness
  • treachery
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickishness
  • two-facedness
  • two-timing
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • untruth
  • untruthfulness
  • whitewash
  • wile
  • wiliness

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