slipperiness

noun

Definition of slipperinessnext
as in slickness

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  1. treachery
  2. chicanery
  3. subterfuge
  4. duplicity
  5. trickery
Noun
  • Welcome back for another season full of [Alan Cumming voice] deception, backstabbing and treachery!
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Yet Milady and her treachery have for nearly 200 years always stood out.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
Definition of treachery
Noun
  • There’s still a lot of baseball chicanery to take place over the next few months, though.
    Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
  • The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of chicanery
Noun
  • In an era rife with conspiracy theories and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps our imagining?
    Dana Feldman, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The story that follows includes intense political subterfuge, villainous monologues, and heart-wrenching character deaths.
    Courtney Mifsud Intreglia, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • The Cold War nurtured a culture of secrets and lies that the population came to tolerate as a strategic necessity; at the turn of the millennium, the war on terror took that duplicity to new levels of sophistication.
    Karen Parker Lears, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Cooper lives for this duplicity, and that smirk is his truest declaration.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024
Definition of duplicity
Noun
  • Featuring a brand new cast of reality television’s best and most conniving, the U.S. version of Peacock’s hit game show returns on January 9 for more challenges, trickery, and impeccable outfits from host Cumming.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Background/foreground blur and other in-camera trickery are used to great effect.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of trickery
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