Cunningness
Cunningness noun - Skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means.
Usage example: it took a certain amount of cunningness on the photographer's part to obtain such revealing portraits of his rich and famous subjects
Slickness and cunningness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slickness" instead a noun "Cunningness".
Slickness
Slickness noun - Skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means.
Usage example: we were both impressed and outraged by the expert slickness with which the swindler fooled us
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Synonyms for Slickness
Cunningness and slickness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cunningness" instead a noun "Slickness".
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Related pairs
- subtlety and cunningness
- subtlety and slickness
- finesse and cunningness
- finesse and slickness
- artifice and cunningness
- artifice and slickness
- smoothness and cunningness
- smoothness and slickness
- cunning and cunningness
- cunning and slickness
- craft and cunningness
- craft and slickness
- shrewdness and cunningness
- shrewdness and slickness
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