Cunning
Cunning noun - Skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means.
Usage example: the cunning with which Tom Sawyer was able to get others to whitewash the fence for him
Deviousness is a synonym for cunning in craftiness topic. In some cases you can use "Deviousness" instead a noun "Cunning", when it comes to topics like guile, deceit.
Nearby Word: cunningly
Deviousness
Deviousness noun - Skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means.
Usage example: his deviousness was almost as awesome as his lack of scruples
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Synonyms for Deviousness
Cunning is a synonym for deviousness in dishonesty topic. You can use "Cunning" instead a noun "Deviousness", if it concerns topics such as deceit, craftiness, guile.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- subtlety and cunning
- subtlety and deviousness
- deception and cunning
- deception and deviousness
- art and cunning
- art and deviousness
- artifice and cunning
- artifice and deviousness
- cleverness and cunning
- cleverness and deviousness
- astuteness and cunning
- astuteness and deviousness
- craft and cunning
- craft and deviousness
Both words in one sentence
- To make it more complex, Vimes is also clearly a true idealist deep down (his cynicism results from how disappointed he is at the world), while Carrot can show remarkable cunning and deviousness for someone so innocent seeming.
Source: Foil / Literature -
Now Red, role-accroaching ghost of a Serial Killer, is left to represent all the worst of a humanity's basic instincts plus a cunning, malicious deviousness, and without him actions such as violence cannot be expressed.
Source: Webcomic / Kagerou
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