noun
- Lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action: chicanery, craft, craftiness, dishonesty, indirection, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness. See honest/dishonest.
deviousness
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
Synonym: obliqueness
Meaning #2:
the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
Synonym: crookedness
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