" double-dealing "

1: marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value;

  * e.g., " ... double-dealing business practices that are being investigated by the state's attorney general "

•  Synonyms : 

•  crooked,

•  deceitful,

•  defrauding,

•  dishonest,

•  false,

•  fraudulent

•  Antonyms : 

•  aboveboard,

•  honest,

•  truthful

2: not being or expressing what one appears to be or express;

  * e.g., " ... the double-dealing salesman never told me that the car had been in an accident and repaired "

•  Synonyms : 

•  artificial,

•  backhanded,

•  counterfeit,

•  double,

•  double-faced,

•  fake,

•  feigned,

•  hypocritical,

•  insincere,

•  Janus-faced,

•  jive,

•  left-handed,

•  lip,

•  mealy,

•  mealymouthed,

•  Pecksniffian,

•  phony,

•  phony-baloney,

•  pretended,

•  two-faced,

•  unctuous

•  Antonyms : 

•  artless,

•  candid,

•  genuine,

•  heartfelt,

•  honest,

•  sincere,

•  undesigning,

•  unfeigned

3: given to or marked by cheating and deception;

  * e.g., " ... the double-dealing team owners were pitting the two cities against one another, both of whom badly wanted the franchise "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bent,

•  crooked,

•  deceptive,

•  dishonest,

•  duplicitous,

•  fast,

•  fraudulent,

•  guileful,

•  rogue,

•  shady,

•  sharp,

•  shifty,

•  underhand,

•  underhanded

•  Antonyms : 

•  aboveboard,

•  honest,

•  straight

1: the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery;

  * e.g., " ... a go-between suspected of double-dealing "

•  Synonyms : 

•  artifice,

•  cheating,

•  cozenage,

•  craft,

•  craftiness,

•  crookedness,

•  crookery,

•  cunning,

•  cunningness,

•  deceit,

•  deceitfulness,

•  deception,

•  deceptiveness,

•  dishonesty,

•  dissembling,

•  dissimulation,

•  dupery,

•  duplicity,

•  fakery,

•  foxiness,

•  fraud,

•  guile,

•  guilefulness,

•  wiliness

•  Antonyms : 

•  artlessness,

•  forthrightness,

•  good faith,

•  guilelessness,

•  ingenuousness,

•  sincerity