Canniness
Canniness noun - Skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means.
Usage example: the canniness with which she negotiated her contract as spokesperson for the shoe manufacturer
Duplicity
Duplicity noun - The inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery.
Canniness and duplicity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Canniness" instead a noun "Duplicity".
Nearby Words: duplicate, duplication
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- subtlety and canniness
- subtlety and duplicity
- art and canniness
- art and duplicity
- artifice and canniness
- artifice and duplicity
- cunning and canniness
- cunning and duplicity
- craft and canniness
- craft and duplicity
- shrewdness and canniness
- shrewdness and duplicity
- deceit and canniness
- deceit and duplicity
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Duplicity and Canniness. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/canniness/duplicity
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Duplicity or Canniness. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/canniness/duplicity.
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