oiliness

The word “oiliness” has 3 syllables: oil-i-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈɔɪlɪnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for oiliness?

In the thesaurus, “oiliness” has 57 synonyms and 11 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for oiliness

  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • design
  • deviousness
  • dirty pool
  • dirty tricks
  • dishonesty
  • dissimulation
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • fakery
  • foxiness
  • gamesmanship
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hanky-panky
  • humbuggery
  • hypocrisy
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • jiggery-pokery
  • jugglery
  • legerdemain
  • plotting
  • quackery
  • scheming
  • secrecy
  • shadiness
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stealth
  • subterfuge
  • treachery
  • trickery
  • underhandedness
  • wile
  • wiliness

Antonyms for oiliness

  • artlessness
  • candidness
  • candor
  • directness
  • forthrightness
  • guilelessness
  • ingenuousness
  • openness
  • plainness
  • plainspokenness
  • sincerity

Example Sentences

  • The oiliness of the surface made it slippery.
  • She struggled with the oiliness of her skin during summer.
  • The soup had an unpleasant oiliness after reheating.
  • The fabric was coated with a noticeable oiliness.
  • He complained about the oiliness of the food at the restaurant.

On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to oiliness, such as: artfulness, artifice, artlessness, cageyness, caginess, candidness, candor.

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

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

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

deception

  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • beguilement
  • betrayal
  • bilk
  • blarney
  • bluff
  • boondoggle
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • catch
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • circumvention
  • con
  • con game
  • confidence game
  • cover-up
  • covertness
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crock
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deceptiveness
  • decoy
  • defraudation
  • device
  • deviousness
  • dishonesty
  • disinformation
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • dodge
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • equivocation
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • feint
  • fib
  • flimflam
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • furtiveness
  • gimmick
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hanky-panky
  • hoax
  • hogwash
  • hokum
  • hustle
  • hypocrisy
  • illusion
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • jive
  • jugglery
  • juggling
  • legerdemain
  • lie
  • lying
  • malarkey
  • mendacity
  • mountebankery
  • obliquity
  • oiliness
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • prevarication
  • ride
  • ruse
  • sanctimoniousness
  • scam
  • secrecy
  • shadiness
  • sham
  • shift
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • shuck
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoothness
  • snare
  • sneakiness
  • snow job
  • sophism
  • stall
  • stealthiness
  • sting
  • story
  • stratagem
  • subterfuge
  • swindle
  • swindling
  • trap
  • treacherousness
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trumpery
  • two-facedness
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • untruth
  • whitewash
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • wrinkle

deceptiveness

  • aberration
  • ambiguity
  • amphiboly
  • apparition
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • beguilement
  • betrayal
  • bias
  • blarney
  • blunder
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • canard
  • casuistry
  • cavil
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • circumvention
  • coloring
  • con
  • cop out
  • cover
  • cover-up
  • covertness
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • daydream
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • defraudation
  • delusion
  • deviation
  • deviousness
  • dishonesty
  • disinformation
  • disingenuousness
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • distortion
  • double entendre
  • double meaning
  • double talk
  • double-dealing
  • doubtfulness
  • dream
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • eidolon
  • elusion
  • equivocality
  • equivocation
  • equivoque
  • erratum
  • erroneousness
  • error
  • euphemism
  • evasion
  • faithlessness
  • fake
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • false impression
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • fancy
  • fantasy
  • faultiness
  • fib
  • fibbing
  • figment
  • flaw
  • flimflam
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • furtiveness
  • ghost
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hallucination
  • hanky-panky
  • head trip
  • hedge
  • hedging
  • heresy
  • hokum
  • hypocrisy
  • ignis fatuus
  • illogicality
  • illusion
  • imposition
  • inaccuracy
  • inconsistency
  • inexactness
  • infidelity
  • insincerity
  • invalidity
  • jugglery
  • juggling
  • lapse
  • legerdemain
  • lie
  • line
  • lying
  • mendacity
  • mirage
  • misapprehension
  • miscalculation
  • misconstrual
  • misinterpretation
  • misrepresentation
  • mistake
  • mountebankery
  • non sequitur
  • notion
  • obliquity
  • oiliness
  • optical illusion
  • oversight
  • oversubtleness
  • paradox
  • perfidiousness
  • perfidy
  • perversion
  • phantasm
  • phantom
  • pipe dream
  • preconception
  • prejudice
  • pretense
  • prevarication
  • quibbling
  • quibbling routine
  • quirk
  • runaround
  • sanctimoniousness
  • secrecy
  • self-deception
  • shade
  • shadiness
  • sham
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoothness
  • sneakiness
  • solecism
  • song
  • song and dance
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • speciousness
  • spuriousness
  • stall
  • stealthiness
  • stonewall
  • story
  • subterfuge
  • swindling
  • tale
  • tergiversation
  • treacherousness
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trip
  • trumpery
  • two-facedness
  • uncandidness
  • underhandedness
  • unfaithfulness
  • unreality
  • unscrupulousness
  • untruth
  • vision
  • waffle
  • weasel word
  • wile
  • wiliness

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