" wiliness "

1: skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means;

  * e.g., " ... admired the politician's wiliness, but questioned his ethics "

•  Synonyms : 

•  artfulness,

•  artifice,

•  caginess,

•  canniness,

•  craft,

•  craftiness,

•  cunning,

•  cunningness,

•  deviousness,

•  foxiness,

•  guile,

•  guilefulness,

•  slickness,

•  slyness,

•  sneakiness,

•  subtleness,

•  subtlety

•  Antonyms : 

•  artlessness,

•  forthrightness,

•  good faith,

•  guilelessness,

•  ingenuousness,

•  sincerity

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

  * e.g., " ... her reputation for Machiavellian wiliness made people disinclined to trust her "

•  Synonyms : 

•  artifice,

•  cheating,

•  cozenage,

•  craft,

•  craftiness,

•  crookedness,

•  crookery,

•  cunning,

•  cunningness,

•  deceit,

•  deceitfulness,

•  deception,

•  deceptiveness,

•  dishonesty,

•  dissembling,

•  dissimulation,

•  double-dealing,

•  dupery,

•  duplicity,

•  fakery,

•  foxiness,

•  fraud,

•  guile,

•  guilefulness

•  Antonyms : 

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1: clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means;

  * e.g., " ... a wily judge of character, she takes advantage of car buyers' insecurities to sell them a bigger machine than they really need "

•  Synonyms : 

•  artful,

•  beguiling,

•  cagey,

•  crafty,

•  cunning,

•  cute,

•  designing,

•  devious,

•  dodgy,

•  foxy,

•  guileful,

•  scheming,

•  shrewd,

•  slick,

•  sly,

•  subtle,

•  tricky

•  Antonyms : 

•  artless,

•  guileless,

•  ingenuous,

•  innocent,

•  undesigning