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What is another word for
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Verb
Having an opportunity, or an intention, to arrive at a specified outcome
Present participle for to contrive of (something) using skill or ingenuity
Present participle for to make secret plans, especially to do something illicit or unlawful
Present participle for to bring about or cause something to happen
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
Present participle for to obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods or by trickery
Present participle for to indulge in fantasies about something desired
Present participle for to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level
Present participle for attempt to get
Present participle for bring to mind
Present participle for to act in preparation for something
Present participle for to build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications
Present participle for to ascertain through analysis or investigation
Adjective
Dishonest, deceptive, and not to be trusted
Which has the ability to calculate
Causing to function
Noun
The action of building something, typically a large structure
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Verb
▲
Having an opportunity, or an intention, to arrive at a specified outcome
getting
arranging
finding a way
engineering a way
managing
succeeding in
organizing
US
working it
fixing it
compassing
coordinating
designing
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
organising
UK
succeeding
wangling
machinating
plotting
scheming
finagling
conspiring
manipulating
devising
intriguing
conniving
engineering
colluding
framing
finessing
planning
negotiating
masterminding
angling
caballing
operating
cogitating
hatching a plot
setting up
complotting
jockeying
pulling strings
working
being in cahoots
putting up
cooking up
playing games
collaborating
fixing
hatching
rigging
laying plans
participating in a conspiracy
forming a conspiracy
directing
orchestrating
abetting
consorting
stage-managing
beguiling
exploiting
pulling wires
getting in bed with
coming up with
swinging
working hand in glove
controlling
concocting
choreographing
conceiving
conducting
playing
effecting
handling
bringing off
projecting
coconspiring
achieving
framing up
wheeling and dealing
promoting
scamming
cooking
taking part in a conspiracy
conning
putting one over
shifting
doctoring
thinking up
upstaging
diddling
working together
making secret plans
laying
hooking
brewing
inventing
outlining
cooperating
fraternizing
US
fiddling
drafting
sympathizing
US
confederating
trumping up
influencing
one-upping
bluffing
hustling
thinking of
lobbying
cogitating on
roughing out
dreaming up
helping
fraternising
UK
working close
sympathising
UK
assisting
moving
proceeding
going around
shamming
cheating
tricking
leaving holding the bag
navigating
pushing around
fencing
wiring
hatching treason
colloguing
working against
putting out a contract
working something out
getting together
joining together
countenancing
keeping in countenance
fostering
causing
bringing about
originating
aiding and abetting
mobilizing
US
superintending
mounting
pulling off
staging
encompassing
creating
constructing
concerting
putting together
conceiving a plan
hatching plans
engineering plans
formulating plans
supervising
fixing up
putting over
putting one on
putting on
putting through
mobilising
UK
planting
executing
swinging it
hitting upon
carrying out
wrangling
elaborating
developing
passing
more ❯
“Where other managements would somehow
contrive
to squeeze double the number of rooms within the same confines, they always seems to go in the opposite direction, as though trying to see how few rooms he can incorporate.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to contrive of (something) using skill or ingenuity
devising
concocting
fabricating
manufacturing
constructing
creating
engineering
designing
planning
plotting
inventing
formulating
framing
orchestrating
scheming
stage-managing
wangling
cooking up
excogitating
hatching
improvising
thinking up
bringing about
dreaming up
effecting
procuring
becasting
causing to happen
coming up with
drumming up
fashioning
forging
forming
handling
making
making up
moving
projecting
rigging
trumping up
vamping
vamping up
working out
hitting upon
setting up
casting about
laying out
throwing together
whipping up
putting together
developing
conceiving
producing
composing
originating
arranging
preparing
organizing
US
crafting
shaping
drawing up
organising
UK
establishing
coining
drafting
casting
imagining
evolving
assembling
moulding
UK
building
molding
US
masterminding
turning out
modelling
UK
modeling
US
brewing
machinating
discovering
generating
instituting
brainstorming
knocking together
fixing
blueprinting
initiating
putting up
outlining
charting
mapping out
cobbling together
faking
fixing up
pioneering
working
choreographing
founding
sparking
hammering out
knocking up
knocking off
authoring
envisioning
hitting on
conceiving of
innovating
thinking of
spawning
rustling up
calculating
conjuring up
erecting
instigating
launching
causing
doping out
cultivating
throwing up
starting
writing
scheming out
strategizing about
ad-libbing
laying
managing
begetting
budgeting
regulating
coordinating
beginning
confecting
marshaling
US
marshalling
UK
constituting
envisaging
falsifying
structuring
cogitating
effectuating
bringing on
actualizing
feigning
getting ready
jury-rigging
pondering
inaugurating
introducing
directing
fitting
giving rise to
engendering
sketching
bearing
yielding
piecing
bringing into being
executing
breeding
manipulating
setting
compiling
catalyzing
US
achieving
affecting
bringing to pass
realising
UK
realizing
US
starting up
catalysing
UK
setting out
visualizing
US
visualising
UK
instilling
blocking out
fitting together
making arrangements for
shaping up
pulling together
rigging up
simulating
advancing
conducting
drawing
negotiating
running
synthesizing
US
disposing
strategizing
raising
codifying
delineating
inducing
thrashing out
ruminating
arraying
rationalizing
US
standardizing
US
schematizing
rendering
spinning
scheduling
rearing
provoking
spitballing
dreaming
compounding
joining
knocking out
churning out
ushering in
maneuvering
US
setting in motion
fomenting
occasioning
driving
diagramming
diagraming
getting going
faking it
bringing forth
accomplishing
synthesising
UK
putting on
stirring up
putting in motion
putting in place
cutting
activating
manoeuvring
UK
picturing
methodizing
setting off
bringing into existence
playing by ear
sculpturing
sketching out
deciding
carving out
completing
determining
sorting out
running up
piecing together
sparking off
translating into
building up
bringing off
jacking up
scribbling
making uniform
tightening up
getting act together
straightening up
promoting
reckoning
patching together
jerry-building
contemplating
furthering
readying
systemizing
standardising
UK
rationalising
UK
shamming
finding
penning
fostering
resulting in
prefabbing
controlling
parenting
procreating
prepping
supervising
purposing
sculpting
deriving
jamming
carving
hammering
improvisating
leading to
fulfilling
superintending
contributing
leading
pretending
bringing out
floating
hewing
dissembling
weaving
finessing
grooming
finagling
mapping
installing
scripting
tracing
counterfeiting
administrating
administering
programming
resolving
performing
figuring
coming out with
overseeing
triggering
precipitating
prompting
spurring
starting off
opening up
kicking off
perfecting
comping
fathering
playing a part in
imaging
adjusting
anticipating
presiding over
issuing
commencing
working up
making ready
culminating in
inducting
starting out
endowing
getting up
making do
elaborating
eliciting
spearheading
thinking on one's feet
thinking
winging it
influencing
playing a role in
speculating
fudging together
dashing off
seeing to
carrying out
amounting to
contributing to
inspiring
ringing in
seeing about
bringing
tailoring
cobbling up
attaining
being responsible for
laying the foundations of
making a pretence of
making a show of
adding up to
conducing
coming to terms
making preparations for
preparing for
penciling in
putting in order
giving the appearance of
settling on
pulling off
conducing to
flying by the seat of one's pants
quarterbacking
causing to occur
intending
proposing
throwing something together
conceptualizing
US
fabling
revolutionizing
US
classifying
working something out
conceptualising
UK
setting down
pounding
beating
uncovering
stumbling upon
mooting
making hastily
preparing hastily
preparing roughly
making roughly
stamping
adumbrating
scribing
modernizing
US
detecting
ordering
ranging
sequencing
tabulating
minting
swinging
comprising
revolutionising
UK
modernising
UK
skeletoning
roughing
telling
recounting
narrating
reaching an agreement on
connecting
finishing
patterning
consummating
making up off the top of one's head
implementing
whipping out
eking out
making for
planning ahead
erecting hastily
assembling hastily
combining
categorizing
US
roughing out
relating
fabulizing
fangling
improving
winging
carpentering
reconstructing
prefabricating
superstructing
ideating
conceiting
extemporizing
US
chiseling
US
whittling
chiselling
UK
planning for
emerging
siring
processing
maturing
batching
fictionalising
UK
fictionalizing
US
storifying
looming
beating into shape
working on
describing
unfolding
equipping
supplying
editing
adapting
categorising
UK
systematising
UK
systematizing
US
uniting
having the bright idea of
elevating
providing
laying on
having
throwing
obtaining
getting
grinding out
cranking out
propagating
finding a way
pulling strings
tossing off
coming upon
incorporating
accoutreing
outfitting
accoutring
furnishing
extemporising
UK
estimating
making it up
predicting
forecasting
putting together roughly
putting together hastily
sewing
enacting
settling
mixing
intriguing
breaking open
laying eggs
coming out
giving forth
giving birth
harvesting
mixing up
slapping together
appointing
inditing
considering
patching up
welding
lumping together
joining up
sewing up
drawing together
mass-producing
expecting
laying plans
coming to terms about
coming to an agreement
making plans
pulling things together
agreeing on
setting stage
ironing out
making plans for
agreeing to
impending
gathering
opening
setting up hastily
studying
prevaricating
misrepresenting
fibbing
lying
misstating
equivocating
getting off
fitting out
smoothing the way
filling in
making provision
hashing out
getting underway
kicking something off
deliberating
whomping up
perceiving
daydreaming
fantasising
UK
fantasizing
US
weighing
versing
rhyming
singing
inculcating
firing up
causing to be
ordaining
supposing
extrapolating
accelerating
inciting
quickening
encouraging
having a hand in
stimulating
impelling
adding to
hastening
being a factor in
cobbling something together
doing
planting
calling forth
pushing forward
opening the door for
arousing
speeding up
expediting
exciting
scoring
poetizing
ghostwriting
timing
ghosting
telling a white lie
telling untruth
creating out of thin air
perpending
settling up
starting the ball rolling
playing it by ear
evoking
enkindling
having a part in
spelling
helping
entailing
drawing out
being partly responsible for
triggering off
having the effect of
carrying off
carrying through
oiling the wheels of
invoking
forwarding
touching off
making happen
finishing in
making possible
kindling
ending in
gauging
UK
steering
spoofing
mobilizing
US
threatening
mulling
gathering force
growing
minding
setting type
banging out
pushing pencil
noting down
putting down
patenting
predetermining
governing
blowing up
slapdashing
punting
coining a phrase
dissimulating
ruling
piloting
educing
giving birth to
putting pen to paper
mounting
mobilising
UK
timetabling
concerting
learning
commanding
mulling over
staging
foreseeing
gaging
US
featuring
visioning
foretelling
seeing
doing offhand
unraveling
US
ciphering
breaking
cracking
unravelling
UK
unriddling
answering
solving
computing
breaking the ice
dealing with
materializing
US
imbibing
mastering
grasping
thinking out
keeping
operating
overlooking
stewarding
straightening out
taking care of
budgeting for
getting off the ground
looking after
getting together
licking into shape
doing off top of head
relying on your wits
swaying
acquiring
materialising
UK
assimilating
funnelling
UK
coxswaining
carrying on
trailblazing
beaconing
having control of
funneling
US
guiding
taking control of
navigating
channeling
US
channelling
UK
pointing
having a handle on
taking charge of
acting
bluffing
assuming
professing
picking up
going well
finding out
upping
figuring out
prospering
resulting
clearing
satisfying
deciphering
compromising
winning
reaching agreement
riddling out
puzzling out
getting something done
putting up a front
imitating
doing a bit
making out like
aspiring to
making like
playing at
passing for
playacting
laying it on thick
going through the motions of
taking up
more ❯
“The real miracle, though, is that you could
contrive
a way to have a food crisis.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make secret plans, especially to do something illicit or unlawful
plotting
conspiring
conniving
machinating
scheming
intriguing
colluding
compassing
putting up
designing
devising
forming
hatching
concocting
masterminding
planning
cooking up
forging
coming up with
preparing
organizing
US
arranging
developing
engineering
crafting
conceiving
formulating
drafting
choreographing
building
premeditating
brewing
slating
inventing
orchestrating
excogitating
contemplating
brainstorming
budgeting
shaping
detailing
molding
US
mapping
framing
projecting
outlining
forecasting
blueprinting
representing
calculating
sketching
fashioning
planning out
working out
thinking ahead
roughing out
readying
sketching out
meditating
fixing up
tracing
quarterbacking
thinking out
chalking out
steering
mapping out
scheming out
reckoning on
bargaining for
roughing in
strategizing about
figuring on
blocking out
fixing to
making arrangements
figuring out
laying out
setting out
laying in provisions
lining up
moulding
UK
organising
UK
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bring about or cause something to happen
effecting
achieving
accomplishing
carrying out
conducting
enacting
realising
UK
realizing
US
attaining
enforcing
executing
implementing
bringing off
carrying off
carrying through
launching
engineering
performing
administering
bringing about
organising
UK
organizing
US
perpetrating
making
fulfilling
completing
fixing
consummating
doing
causing
effectuating
bringing
administrating
finalising
UK
finalizing
US
pulling off
generating
initiating
managing
provoking
putting in place
creating
discharging
producing
succeeding in
arranging for
calling forth
finishing
giving rise to
occasioning
bringing to pass
concluding
originating
rendering
setting up
actuating
engendering
precipitating
starting
causing to happen
causing to occur
making happen
wreaking
running
kindling
begetting
breeding
bringing on
catalysing
UK
catalyzing
US
drawing on
inducing
invoking
prompting
spawning
working
yielding
actualizing
beginning
putting across
resulting in
translating into
turning out
turning the trick
applying
putting into action
putting into practice
imposing
undertaking
arranging
succeeding
finishing off
employing
enabling
providing the means for
putting through
putting into operation
putting into effect
following up
following out
going through with
following through
following through with
doing proud
perfecting
bringing to fruition
making good on
living up to
getting done
pulling something off
fulfilling your potential
making the grade
sewing up
bearing out
gaining fulfillment
getting there
making it
nailing it
making good
scoring
wrapping up
satisfying
racking up
delivering on
clinching
reaching
meeting
prosecuting
following
compassing
observing
transacting
negotiating
acting upon
hitting
establishing
chalking up
clocking up
notching up
committing
honoring
US
securing
acting out
obeying
acquiring
striking
honouring
UK
taking care of
taking care of business
delivering the goods
abiding by
arriving at
polishing off
pursuing
keeping
acting on
exercising
procuring
dispatching
heeding
earning
dealing with
seizing
landing
conquering
carrying to completion
filling
authorising
UK
bagging
acquitting oneself of
authorizing
US
coming through
putting in force
complying with
keeping to
adhering to
conforming to
crowning
following through on
doing the trick
bringing to completion
doing justice to
topping off
rounding off
putting the final touches to
putting the finishing touches to
sticking to
acting in accordance with
triggering
nailing
bringing forth
finding
setting off
staging
ticking
affecting
swinging
presenting
cutting
polishing
refining
hacking
disposing of
standing by
capping
winding up
actionizing
tackling
following up on
playing out
plying
determining
putting on
going that route
serving
exacting
engaging
putting over
doing the job
sailing through
responding to
doing to a turn
running with the ball
processing
exerting
earning wings
getting out of the way
making short work of
operating
working on
inflicting
doing to a T
reifying
actioning
taking action on
starting in on
incarnating
grasping
making real
bringing to bear
serving out
bringing into effect
dealing out
bringing into play
gaining
wresting
winning
snagging
netting
ringing up
logging
reorganizing
US
materializing
US
making concrete
reorganising
UK
corporealizing
materialising
UK
legislating
declaring
passing
putting finishing touch on
idealising
UK
bringing to perfection
reaching the summit of
idealizing
US
decreeing
drafting
getting someplace
latching onto
making hay
fulfilling one's potential
keeping faith with
making a reality
doing one proud
doing a bang-up job
putting it over
putting the tin lid on
formulating
forming
advancing
sanctioning
ratifying
providing
drawing up
approving
proclaiming
engaging in
laying down
waging
supplying
giving
furnishing
dictating
confirming
dispensing
bearing
delivering
dropping
imparting
handing over
having
coming up with
coming across
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
designing
intending
aiming
devising
purposing
planning
tailoring
fashioning
making fitting
adjusting
adapting
proposing
purporting
conceiving
constructing
fitting
preparing
shaping
gearing
equipping
meaning
destining
orienting
aspiring
endeavoring
US
conspiring
premeditating
arranging
seeking
scheming
trying
plotting
wanting
striving
attempting
wishing
expecting
orchestrating
anticipating
angling
organizing
US
essaying
targeting
targetting
organising
UK
endeavouring
UK
contemplating
having plans
desiring
setting out
concocting
envisaging
thinking of
envisioning
having in view
designating
counting on
prearranging
having in mind
thinking
resolving
foreseeing
having every intention
ordaining
making plans
masterminding
focusing
focussing
calculating
meditating
engineering
hoping
zeroing in on
looking
setting one's sights on
zooming in on
reckoning on
awaiting
taking care
attending
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods or by trickery
manipulating
tricking
cheating
conning
deceiving
duping
finagling
fooling
hoodwinking
misleading
swindling
bamboozling
beguiling
defrauding
deluding
hoaxing
jockeying
swaying
bilking
entrapping
impressing
outmaneuvering
US
outmanoeuvring
UK
scamming
wangling
biasing
US
biassing
UK
bluffing
snookering
stiffing
suckering
trapping
gaslighting
double-crossing
ripping off
stringing along
doing a number on
playing games
pulling strings
pulling wires
setting up
stage-managing
sucking in
taking for a ride
leading up the garden path
pulling a fast one on
twisting around your little finger
Verb
▲
Present participle for to indulge in fantasies about something desired
dreaming
fantasising
UK
fantasizing
US
daydreaming
contemplating
imagining
envisioning
visualising
UK
visualizing
US
musing
romanticising
UK
romanticizing
US
fancying
craving
hankering
idealising
UK
idealizing
US
longing
lusting
pining
woolgathering
picturing
aiming for
aspiring to
building castles in air
conceiving of
conjuring up pictures
desiring to
hankering after
hoping for
hungering for
living in a dream world
longing for
seeking to
thirsting after
thirsting for
wishing for
wishing to
yearning for
having as one's aim
having as one's goal
ideating
setting one's heart on
setting one's sights on
sighing
inventing
hallucinating
romancing
pretending
conceiving
conceiting
play-acting
seeing
envisaging
featuring
fantasying
imaging
visioning
mooning
conjuring up
tripping out
indulging in fantasy
seeing visions
indulging in fancy
building castles in the air
indulging in wool-gathering
building castles in Spain
giving free rein to the imagination
conceptualizing
US
depicting
conceptualising
UK
thinking of
fantasizing about
dreaming up
dreaming about
forming a picture of
forming a mental picture of
seeing in one's mind
seeing in the mind's eye
perceiving
projecting
thinking up
making up
planning
stargazing
staring into space
viewing
evoking
having your head in the clouds
divining
conjuring up a picture of
dreaming of
creating in your mind
calling to mind
bringing to mind
conjuring up an image of
seeing in your mind's eye
conjuring up a mental picture of
concocting
framing
creating
scheming
cooking up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level
getting by
coping
managing
existing
getting along
getting on
making do
subsisting
surviving
making ends meet
making out
doing
faring
muddling along
muddling through
scraping by
shifting
flourishing
making shift
prospering
scraping along
scraping through
scrimping
succeeding
thriving
fending
doing well enough
scraping a living
barely have enough to live oning
scarcely have enough to live oning
keeping the wolf from the door
Verb
▲
Present participle for attempt to get
angling for
aiming for
casting about for
conniving
conspiring
fishing for
hinting
hunting
inviting
looking for
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
planning
plotting
scheming
seeking
soliciting
striving
trying for
trying to get
Verb
▲
Present participle for bring to mind
conjuring up
calling up
conjuring
invoking
raising
calling
creating
evoking
materialising
UK
materializing
US
producing as by magic
recalling
recollecting
remembering
reviewing
summoning
urging
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act in preparation for something
providing
preparing
planning
anticipating
bracing
allowing
organising
UK
organizing
US
readying
adapting
adjusting
getting ready
making provision
setting up
guarding
practising
UK
practicing
US
forearming oneself
laying the groundwork
making provision for
taking measures
taking precautions
taking steps
making arrangements
making plans
making preparations
priming
training
warming up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications
customising
UK
customizing
US
adapting
altering
converting
custom-making
designing
fashioning
modifying
personalising
UK
personalizing
US
tailoring
tailor-making
making specially
making to order
Verb
▲
Present participle for to ascertain through analysis or investigation
determining
ascertaining
discerning
discovering
establishing
deducing
detecting
figuring out
finding out
identifying
learning
verifying
working out
fathoming
figuring
finding
perceiving
uncovering
adding up
conceiving
confirming
intuiting
noticing
observing
picking up
realising
UK
realizing
US
recognising
UK
recognizing
US
seeing
sensing
spotting
unearthing
catching on
coming upon
descrying
diagnosing
divining
getting
getting to know
having a hunch
reading
sizing up
coming to know
fathoming out
making out
Adjective
▲
Dishonest, deceptive, and not to be trusted
shifty
shady
deceitful
devious
cunning
duplicitous
slippery
crafty
dishonest
furtive
roguish
sly
sneaky
tricky
untrustworthy
wily
foxy
insidious
scheming
treacherous
underhand
artful
bent
crooked
deceptive
fast
fraudulent
guileful
rogue
sharp
sneaking
snide
snidey
stealthy
suspicious
underhanded
conniving
iffy
lying
shonky
shrewd
slimy
unprincipled
cagey
collusive
dubious
false
mendacious
slick
unhonest
double-dealing
two-faced
Janus-faced
fly-by-night
evasive
unpredictable
unreliable
dodgy
fugitive
elusive
unsafe
unsteady
uncertain
insecure
mutable
inconstant
unstable
hard to pin down
variable
changeable
unscrupulous
dishonourable
UK
dishonorable
US
designing
corrupt
subtle
Machiavellian
disreputable
calculating
disingenuous
unethical
insincere
questionable
cheating
perfidious
untruthful
dissembling
secret
canny
beguiling
suspect
two-timing
clever
clandestine
fishy
surreptitious
cute
slim
deceiving
unfair
covert
secretive
immoral
traitorous
unfaithful
misleading
astute
indirect
illegal
dirty
hypocritical
faithless
disloyal
murky
knavish
criminal
fly
cagy
smooth
double-crossing
undependable
unlawful
smart
undercover
untrue
hush-hush
hugger-mugger
conspiratorial
hollow-hearted
hole-and-corner
backstairs
double-faced
false-hearted
ingenious
dark
hidden
swindling
mean
scandalous
unsavoury
UK
base
underground
private
delusive
carny
sneak
privy
stealth
amoral
defrauding
behind-the-scenes
recreant
oblique
nefarious
intriguing
funny
unsavory
US
counterfeit
dissimulating
fake
doubtful
phony
US
villainous
low
truthless
pawky
sharp-witted
phoney
UK
mysterious
black
irregular
savvy
under the table
irresponsible
seedy
rascally
intelligent
bluffing
not to be trusted
unjust
skilful
UK
skillful
US
under wraps
contemptible
inglorious
wicked
concealed
streetwise
low-down
shrouded
arch
Punic
cloak-and-dagger
not dependable
sub-rosa
fickle
queer
venal
trustless
plotting
evil
malfeasant
fibbing
exploitative
skulking
slinking
on the QT
strange
feigned
cloaked
sketchy
nasty
backhanded
double
ruthless
pretended
left-handed
unsporting
resourceful
despicable
malicious
manipulative
illicit
unsportsmanlike
shameful
vile
unconscionable
sinister
unctuous
ignoble
bad
back-alley
vulpine
deep
veiled
impish
mischievous
below the belt
potentially illegal
equivocating
delusory
untrusty
hollow
wrong
corruptible
odd
prevaricating
not to be depended on
fair-weather
back-stabbing
captious
illusory
grafting
buyable
put-on
reprobate
pretentious
ambidextrous
sham
not candid
not frank
cowardly
rotten
hoodwinking
ignominious
disgraceful
keen
conscienceless
improper
corrupted
sinful
closet
subversive
iniquitous
shameless
infamous
unveracious
astucious
mercenary
unworthy
knowing
degenerate
artificial
off
spurious
greasy
street-smart
unconscientious
treasonous
sordid
jive
mealymouthed
mealy
lawless
renegade
dirty-dealing
cheap
treasonable
rebellious
acute
beggarly
not quite right
mock
self-seeking
dastardly
sleazy
politic
ambiguous
squalid
Pecksniffian
lip
perjured
scurvy
mutinous
cautious
as sharp as a tack
phony-baloney
phoney-baloney
vicious
abject
unpleasant
snaky
sorry
economical with the truth
behind someone's back
of dubious character
unloyal
betraying
licentious
dissolute
crazy like a fox
misrepresenting
errant
mean-spirited
snake in the grass
inventing
misstating
committing perjury
on the quiet
falsifying
suspected
disbelieved
shadowy
bribable
dicey
trick
mala fide
macabre
bogus
dangerous
deviant
perceptive
wise
discerning
under suspicion
uncandid
tactful
lubricious
discriminating
deft
quick
salty
ornery
hostile
unfrank
unprofessional
cowboy
wry
witted
potentially dishonest
backstabbing
imaginative
untrusted
alert
tactical
not entirely truthful
terminologically inexact
heady
quick-witted
inventive
masterly
adept
heads-up
backbiting
fiendish
fink
plausible
rascal
bum
seeming
serpentine
catchy
imposturous
not trustworthy
seditious
of bad faith
paltering
sagacious
stinky
dexterous
US
proficient
adroit
sideways
sidelong
under-the-table
double dealing
nifty
neat
whip-smart
quiet
catlike
enigmatic
catty
silent
feline
noiseless
sly like a fox
not to be relied upon
dextrous
UK
apostate
wrongdoing
faking one out
obliquitous
playing politics
put on
playing games
not straightforward
erring
gimmicky
discreditable
notorious
cloak and dagger
disguised
creepy
circumspect
masked
breakaway
pseudo
bamboozling
falsified
forged
against the law
imitation
suborned
hole and corner
cutthroat
confidential
louche
forsworn
dissident
revolutionary
shocking
fallacious
guerrilla
overdone
exaggerated
casuistic
selfish
degrading
petty
degraded
wrongful
arrant
insurgent
cynical
puckish
backstair
reprehensible
lacking sincerity
unenlightened
enigmatical
unseen
top-secret
clouded
mystic
occult
surprise
obscure
unintelligible
backdoor
out-of-the-way
covered
mystical
resistance
outrageous
opprobrious
disorderly
in ambush
pretend
pseud
insurrectionary
radical
insurrectionist
of bad reputation
seamy
shy
unrespectable
unwholesome
shoddy
playful
devilish
unbowed
unusual
resistant
resistive
ungentlemanly
funny-looking
queer-looking
dishonest-looking
guilty-looking
mysterious-looking
strange-looking
cheeky
waggish
pitiable
lowly
lewd
derogatory
libidinous
with tongue in cheek
foul
shabby
detestable
paltry
worthless
on the sly
in low esteem
in the doghouse
no good
in bad
perjurious
naughty
execrable
illegitimate
wretched
grubby
inequitable
unsportsmanly
difficult to track down
difficult to find
always on the move
difficult to catch
peculiar
deplorable
scummy
lame
currish
scungy
lousy
depraved
debauched
yellow
ratty
scabby
pixieish
tricksy
scampish
ludic
pixie
teasing
coquettish
leprechaunish
pixy
prankish
elvish
cruel
brutal
merciless
low-minded
problematical
dubitable
disputable
debatable
shaky
problematic
doubtable
equivocal
debased
inhumane
callous
malevolent
hateful
heinous
inhuman
perverted
off-color
ill-gotten
frolicsome
sportive
rakish
raffish
not cricket
against the rules
out of order
monstrous
pitiless
unfeeling
rancorous
scoundrelly
self-indulgent
unkind
vitiated
disparaging
delinquent
forbidding
hard-hearted
libertine
unrighteous
bloodthirsty
heartless
wrathful
demonic
scrofulous
black-hearted
evil-minded
vengeful
felonious
contemptuous
grisly
pernicious
cold-blooded
savage
tyrannical
barbarous
incorrigible
scornful
morally wrong
maleficent
objectionable
decadent
brutish
defiled
despiteful
ungodly
bestial
sadistic
harsh
virulent
profligate
inexorable
wanton
vindictive
gruesome
disdainful
spiteful
espiègle
improbable
unlikely
implausible
far-fetched
not kosher
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Which has the ability to calculate
calculating
crafty
cunning
designing
devious
Machiavellian
manipulative
scheming
shrewd
sly
artful
canny
cautious
conniving
disingenuous
foxy
guileful
politic
sharp
slick
slippery
unscrupulous
wily
careful
chary
circumspect
considerate
discreet
gingerly
guarded
intelligent
premeditating
safe
slim
subtle
wary
plotting
tricky
deceitful
unprincipled
underhand
treacherous
Janus-faced
astute
intriguing
opportunistic
colluding
duplicitous
collusive
conspiring
conspiratorial
caballing
cynical
perfidious
amoral
opportunist
unconscionable
unethical
immoral
insidious
cutthroat
underhanded
expedient
dishonest
double-dealing
two-faced
tactful
sensitive
delicate
polite
prudent
clever
judicious
skillful
US
skilful
UK
discerning
understanding
adept
thoughtful
strategic
conciliatory
diplomatic
cagey
deft
suave
savvy
treating with kid gloves
courteous
capable
dexterous
US
bland
gracious
smooth
brainy
dextrous
UK
arch
sneaky
shifty
shady
dodgy
crooked
deceptive
cute
beguiling
cagy
cheating
dishonourable
UK
fraudulent
dishonorable
US
corrupt
unfair
fly
ingenious
sharp-witted
disreputable
untrustworthy
carny
pawky
roguish
dirty
smart
snide
bad
resourceful
evil
wicked
deceiving
sinful
base
wrong
furtive
villainous
bent
sneaking
vulpine
streetwise
shonky
indirect
deep
low-down
false
reprobate
knowing
stealthy
shameless
ignoble
degenerate
insincere
dissembling
illegal
secret
knavish
surreptitious
vile
depraved
nefarious
unsavoury
UK
two-timing
rotten
clandestine
unsavory
US
unlawful
fishy
not cricket
corrupted
rogue
conscienceless
lying
improper
low
unprofessional
hypocritical
counterfeit
keen
mean
untruthful
venal
mendacious
dissolute
sordid
adroit
inventive
imaginative
abandoned
dastardly
sinister
street-smart
fiendish
wrongful
unsporting
iniquitous
acute
covert
serpentine
licentious
dubious
Punic
truthless
wanton
hollow-hearted
fast
unsportsmanlike
unworthy
false-hearted
profligate
double-faced
astucious
delusive
vicious
unjust
greasy
dirty-dealing
double-crossing
evasive
oblique
black
unrighteous
dark
as sharp as a tack
snidey
below the belt
crazy like a fox
perceptive
wise
trick
discriminating
quick
heedful
observant
criminal
indefensible
controlling
heady
quick-witted
heads-up
alert
tactical
sagacious
media-savvy
masterly
strong
canine
retiary
foxlike
pungent
experienced
bogus
sham
misleading
wry
delusory
witted
proficient
bluffing
illusory
elusive
captious
nifty
traitorous
malicious
mean-spirited
stinky
unseemly
mercentary
praetorian
stop-at-nothing
neat
whip-smart
negligent
scam
flimflam
under-the-table
fly-by-night
wormlike
perilous
ensnaring
backhanded
dangerous
snaky
secretive
exploitative
spurious
plausible
bum
seeming
rascal
catchy
off
fake
unreliable
mock
phoney
UK
phony
US
imposturous
pretended
cloak-and-dagger
hidden
back-alley
hugger-mugger
veiled
shrouded
hole-and-corner
murky
backstairs
wrongdoing
not straightforward
faking one out
under the table
erring
errant
obliquitous
playing politics
gimmicky
put on
playing games
unconscientious
ruthless
indecent
lewd
impure
unchaste
debauched
disgraceful
degraded
casuistic
selfish
degrading
mercenary
recreant
scandalous
questionable
self-seeking
petty
arrant
like a snake in the grass
morally wrong
obscene
unvirtuous
pornographic
perverted
lustful
promiscuous
bawdy
whorish
miscreant
nasty
saturnalian
dissipated
decadent
loose
graceless
rakish
X-rated
unclean
despicable
of easy virtue
contemptible
faithless
cheap
ignominious
squalid
beggarly
shameful
cowardly
ungentlemanly
sly like a fox
shabby
foul
detestable
unpleasant
scurvy
paltry
worthless
execrable
illegitimate
wretched
sleazy
grubby
abject
inequitable
unsportsmanly
currish
scungy
sorry
deplorable
lousy
scummy
lame
illicit
ratty
scabby
defrauding
fallacious
low-minded
off-color
ill-gotten
against the rules
out of order
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing to function
operating
directing
accomplishing
administering
conducting
determining
driving
executing
finishing
fulfilling
guiding
maintaining
managing
manipulating
moving
ordering
performing
practising
UK
practicing
US
regulating
revolving
serving
spinning
supervising
sustaining
transacting
turning
using
wielding
at work
inspecting
piloting
leading
steering
husbanding
admonishing
governing
handling
organizing
US
superintending
controlling
advising
overseeing
organising
UK
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▲
The action of building something, typically a large structure
construction
building
assembly
creation
development
erection
fabrication
making
composition
establishment
manufacture
origination
production
raising
structure
erecting
fabricating
fashioning
formation
arrangement
casting
constitution
invention
architecture
conception
elevation
figuration
format
forming
foundation
putting up
setting up
forging
modelling
UK
formulation
shaping
devising
modeling
US
putting together
manufacturing
producing
creating
assemblage
moulding
UK
mass production
design
product
authoring
molding
US
fancying
imagination
planning
causation
occasioning
performing
constituting
designing
introduction
innovation
discovery
pioneering
contrivance
masterminding
inception
institution
finding
initiation
inauguration
generation
engineering
produce
fitting together
founding
genesis
organization
US
preparation
joining
installation
start
connection
laying down
mass-production
piecing together
organisation
UK
composing
preparing
assembling
concoction
engendering
connecting
coupling
compilation
provision
constructing
junction
attachment
joint
hatching
jointure
join
juncture
induction
nascency
set-up
drawing up
getting going
linking
thinking up
labor
US
handiwork
realization
US
output
labour
UK
realisation
UK
build
setting-up
architectonics
completion
doing
tooling
finishing
accomplishment
planting
construct
industry
incorporation
spawning
causing
nativity
interpretation
rendering
framing
writing
prefabrication
triggering
kindling
prompting
inspiration
emergence
appearance
processing
yielding
direction
making up
reproduction
bearing
building design
incipience
nascence
incipiency
building up
welding
collection
adjustment
turning out
editing
arranging
concocting
outcomes
by-products
things
results
offshoots
conglomeration
instigation
gestation
evolution
incubation
complex
thinking-up
putting in order
making ready
getting ready
widening
thickening
unravelling
UK
site
estate
unraveling
US
launch
launching
institute
originating
fastening
establishing
starting
enactment
instituting
initiating
union
combination
link
endowment
flotation
settlement
merging
combining
merger
unification
consolidation
bringing about
tie
port
portal
mapping
conjunction
fixture
conjointment
seam
network
partnerhip
upshot
commodity
result
thing
offshoot
issue
yield
outcome
fruit
by-product
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