underhandedness

noun

Definition of underhandednessnext
as in treachery

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  1. treachery
  2. subterfuge
  3. chicanery
  4. skulduggery
  5. duplicity
  6. trickery
  7. hypocrisy
  8. gamesmanship
Noun
  • Hosted by Alan Cumming, the game of treachery and deceit returns to Peacock on Thursday, January 9th.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Politics is full of deceit, treachery, and betrayal. . . .
    Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
Definition of treachery
Noun
  • Putin’s ties to social media What Putin lacks as a military leader, the former KGB secret agent makes up for in subterfuge.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • When Lorraine’s cocoon of wealth begins to crack after Dot’s subterfuge, Wayne’s injuries, Roy’s threats, and Danish’s disappearance, Leigh centers the Queen of Debt’s humanizing concern.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
Definition of subterfuge
Noun
  • Specifically, expect to see a new look at the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, and an in-depth look at the latest chicanery coming out of Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
  • OpenAI did not inflict its current legal headache on itself out of cunning chicanery, but out of a desire to satisfy a number of different early stakeholders, many of them true believers.
    Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Definition of chicanery
Noun
  • There are many reasons beyond cheating and skulduggery that someone might root or modify their Android device.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
  • And so the tale of how the Giants established themselves at the Polo Grounds is told, accurately enough, as a piece of complicated capitalist skulduggery in which the team’s desperate owner bought a controlling interest in the Baltimore Orioles and then dragged its stars north.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Definition of skulduggery
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
  • The documentary never suitably addresses any of this, nor Goode’s trickery.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
  • While sudden incidents wrest the plot in new directions, the film is driven less by perverse narrative trickery than by the arbitrary cruelty of fate or the volatility of human nature.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • Young people, in general, are particularly attuned to hypocrisies, which, in turn, kick up a sometimes errant, but oftentimes righteous, desire to rage against the machine.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Lying, like hypocrisy, happens often in the business world — and sometimes makes headlines.
    Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • After the game, Roberts indicated there was no gamesmanship intended in that answer.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The juxtaposition of the two worlds, one of which had been grazing horses in this area of the steppe for millennia, the other of which had, in a moment of daring and gamesmanship, started launching people into the cosmos with rockets meant to annihilate humanity, filled McConnell with wonder.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of gamesmanship
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