underhandedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underhandedness
Noun
  • When does compromise become treachery or defeat?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Could Juno be behind this treachery, as payback for David destroying her spy corporation and for changing his oldest daughter into a killer?
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe Payton’s running the best preseason subterfuge campaign ever to make Estime look bad on film.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
  • On the other side of this triangle, Conrad has his own Belly-management system, which relies heavily on subterfuge and mostly comes down to attempts to feed her.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Those concerns were laid bare in the discovery process for the defamation case that Dominion Voting Systems took against Fox over false suggestions of fraud and other chicanery aired by guests on the network.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 19 July 2025
  • Despite the chicanery, this is a solid deal for a phone that isn’t wildly different from the Pixel 9.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • The American people are seeking solace and inspiration from its leaders, not pettiness and skullduggery.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The Poetry Society becomes the Autobiographical Association, whose ridiculous members write their memoirs under the supervision of the director, a snooty character clearly conniving to use their confessions for some sort of skulduggery.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The exceptions are Art Malik, who makes Claudius’ duplicity believable, and Sheeba Chadha, who is wrenching when Gertrude becomes remorseful.
    Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Such duplicity has been a constant feature of the second Trump administration, characterized by the abusive treatment of undocumented immigrants and the militarization of municipal law enforcement in our nation’s major cities.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Admissions of fraud by the Fox sisters, numerous exposures of trickery and growing secularism meant that interest in communicating with ghosts was rapidly dwindling.
    Alice Vernon September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The rooms are packed with high-tech trickery which creates alien-like landscapes.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • First was a catch-and-run on a short third-and-7 pass near midfield, using his shiftiness to create space with Notre Dame cornerback Karson Hobbs prior to the catch.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Every actor works within a range that’s believable to them as performers, even Covino’s hangdog shiftiness as Paul, and Covino, as director, doesn’t push them outside of their comfort zone.
    Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Many are noting Thug’s hypocrisy in his public frustration with Gunna.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But it has been criticized by New Delhi which has accused Washington of hypocrisy given that China, the largest purchaser of Moscow's energy resources, did not face similar measures.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Underhandedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underhandedness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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