insidiousness

noun

Definition of insidiousnessnext
as in underhandedness

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  1. hypocrisy
  2. perfidy
  3. duplicity
  4. trickery
  5. deception
  6. indirection
  7. cunning
Noun
  • Cynicism and hypocrisy During the Assad dynasty’s 53 years in power, Damascus played an incredibly cynical game of regional politics.
    Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • By not treating Aliyev as a war criminal, the ICC further perpetuates a sense of hypocrisy in the enforcement of the law and gives critics an opportunity to question its authenticity.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.
    Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perfidy
Noun
  • This helps Harrow’s case, but getting hard evidence of Valya’s duplicity will help even more.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Zach Bannon, a spokesman for Hovde, accused Baldwin of duplicity for, in effect, saying one thing about price gouging in the Senate and doing another with her campaign fund.
    Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of duplicity
Noun
  • Elegant and the users are never cognizant of the under-the-hood trickery.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Defenses continue to watch film on Darnold, but O'Connell could draw up some trickery by adding Jones to the mix.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of trickery
Noun
  • If the princess world is all sort of deception, this is no artifice at all.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • So, in the spirit of humoring that little Gremlin, here’s a rundown of some of Pattinson’s most memorable deceptions and dubious claims.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of deception
Noun
  • The title page of the 31-sheet mimeographed pamphlet was designed to hide the contents of the publication and perhaps make a joke about the flowery indirection of the Arabic language.
    Steve Hindy, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2015
  • There may be many other backdoors, but the one everyone is talking about uses the function indirection stuff to add the hook.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024
Definition of indirection
Noun
  • David slayed the giant with a slingshot; Esther by her cunning saved her people.
    Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Over time, guile took on the connotation of deceitful cunning in English, emerging in Middle English around the 12th century.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of cunning
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