insidiousness

noun

Definition of insidiousnessnext
as in underhandedness

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  1. hypocrisy
  2. perfidy
  3. duplicity
  4. trickery
  5. deception
  6. indirection
  7. cunning
Noun
  • Cynicism and hypocrisy During the Assad dynasty’s 53 years in power, Damascus played an incredibly cynical game of regional politics.
    Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • By not treating Aliyev as a war criminal, the ICC further perpetuates a sense of hypocrisy in the enforcement of the law and gives critics an opportunity to question its authenticity.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.
    Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perfidy
Noun
  • Newly aware of his subordinate’s duplicity, Masa charges at Yuki from his seat among his look-alikes in the audience.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The right-wing press, though, which had sung the praises of Reuss’ performance a few days earlier, now saw confirmation of characteristic Jewish duplicity and demanded that the government charge Reuss with fraud.
    Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of duplicity
Noun
  • Elegant and the users are never cognizant of the under-the-hood trickery.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Defenses continue to watch film on Darnold, but O'Connell could draw up some trickery by adding Jones to the mix.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • If the princess world is all sort of deception, this is no artifice at all.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • So, in the spirit of humoring that little Gremlin, here’s a rundown of some of Pattinson’s most memorable deceptions and dubious claims.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of deception
Noun
  • The title page of the 31-sheet mimeographed pamphlet was designed to hide the contents of the publication and perhaps make a joke about the flowery indirection of the Arabic language.
    Steve Hindy, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2015
  • There may be many other backdoors, but the one everyone is talking about uses the function indirection stuff to add the hook.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024
Definition of indirection
Noun
  • David slayed the giant with a slingshot; Esther by her cunning saved her people.
    Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Over time, guile took on the connotation of deceitful cunning in English, emerging in Middle English around the 12th century.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of cunning
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