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slyness
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of SLYNESS
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means <the slyness with which the FBI agent infiltrated the subversive organization was indeed impressive>
Synonyms artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety, wiliness
Related Words calculation, care, design; savvy, sharpness, shrewdness; cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness; ease, facility, finesse; deceitfulness, duplicity, shiftiness, underhandedness
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