Honest
Honest adjective - Free from any intent to deceive or impress others.
Usage example: the sort of person who helps others from an honest desire to do good, and not because she might need a favor from them someday
Manipulative is an antonym for honest.
Manipulative
Manipulative adjective - Skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage.
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Synonyms for Manipulative
Honest is an antonym for manipulative in scheming to manipulate topic.
Both words in one sentence
- Firstly he's telling us he's a manipulative bastard, and possibly a psychopath rather than the honest and reliable man the other characters think he is.
Source: I Am What I Am -
L and Near, however, are brutally honest and openly manipulative; Near in particular earned quite a lot of annoyance from Mogi and Aizawa for the way he treated them.
Source: Manga / Death Note - He acts like the Sleazy Politician he used to be, acting very polite and honest but is quite manipulative behind the scenes.
Source: Analysis / Eden of the East
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