Cunning
Cunning noun - Skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means.
Mendaciousness and cunning are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mendaciousness" instead a noun "Cunning".
Nearby Word: cunningly
Mendaciousness
Mendaciousness noun - The tendency to tell lies.
Usage example: her memoirs have such an air of pervasive mendaciousness that she seems to have lost all sense of what truth is
Cunning and mendaciousness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cunning" instead a noun "Mendaciousness".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- artifice and cunning
- artifice and mendaciousness
- double-dealing and cunning
- double-dealing and mendaciousness
- lying and cunning
- lying and mendaciousness
- craft and cunning
- craft and mendaciousness
- dishonesty and cunning
- dishonesty and mendaciousness
- dissimulation and cunning
- dissimulation and mendaciousness
- deceit and cunning
- deceit and mendaciousness
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