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

quackery

  • 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
  • misrepresentation
  • oiliness
  • plotting
  • pretense
  • scheming
  • secrecy
  • shadiness
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stealth
  • subterfuge
  • treachery
  • trickery
  • underhandedness
  • wile
  • wiliness

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

fakery

gamesmanship

  • action
  • angle
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • bettering
  • bit
  • booby trap
  • brainchild
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • canniness
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • child
  • competition
  • competitive advantage
  • competitive edge
  • con
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cutthroat
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • design
  • device
  • deviousness
  • dirty pool
  • dirty tricks
  • dishonesty
  • dissimulation
  • dodge
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • fairness
  • fakery
  • feint
  • forthrightness
  • foxiness
  • gambit
  • game
  • game plan
  • gimmick
  • goodness
  • grift
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hanky-panky
  • honesty
  • honor
  • honorableness
  • humbuggery
  • hypocrisy
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • intrigue
  • jiggery-pokery
  • jugglery
  • layout
  • legerdemain
  • little game
  • maneuver
  • method
  • oiliness
  • one-upmanship
  • outfoxing
  • outsmarting
  • outwitting
  • pitch
  • plan
  • play
  • plot
  • plotting
  • ploy
  • pretext
  • principle
  • proposition
  • quackery
  • racket
  • righteousness
  • rivaling
  • ruse
  • scenario
  • scene
  • scheme
  • scheming
  • secrecy
  • setup
  • shadiness
  • sharpness
  • shift
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • sincerity
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slant
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stall
  • stealth
  • story
  • subterfuge
  • switch
  • treachery
  • trickery
  • twist
  • underhandedness
  • virtue
  • wile
  • wiliness

jiggery-pokery

  • 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
  • jugglery
  • legerdemain
  • oiliness
  • plotting
  • quackery
  • scheming
  • secrecy
  • shadiness
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stealth
  • subterfuge
  • treachery
  • trickery
  • underhandedness
  • wile
  • wiliness

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