| NOUN | cognition | guile, craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness | shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception |
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| attribute | guile, craftiness, deceitfulness | the quality of being crafty | |
| act | guile, trickery, chicanery, chicane, wile, shenanigan | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
| Sounds | gay'l | |
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| Rhymes | aisle ... worthwhile: 64 rhymes with ayl... | |
| Meaning | shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception. | |
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| Synonyms | craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness | |
| Broader | shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness | intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) |
| Spanish | astucia, ingeniosidad, inventiva, malicia, maña, picardía, socarronería, taima, taimería, zorrería | |
| Catalan | astúcia, picardia, sagacitat | |
| Meaning | The quality of being crafty. | |
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| Synonyms | craftiness, deceitfulness | |
| Broader | disingenuousness | The quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor |
| Spanish | retrechería | |
| Catalan | cançoneria, falsedat, romanceria | |
| Meaning | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them). | |
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| Synonyms | trickery, chicanery, chicane, wile, shenanigan | |
| Narrower | fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on | Something intended to deceive |
| jugglery | artful trickery designed to achieve an end | |
| Broader | deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation | The act of deceiving / deceiving |
| Spanish | ardid, argucia, arte, artería, astucia, embaucamiento, engaño, estratagema, farfolla, fullería, picaresca, sofisma, treta | |
| Catalan | ardit, arteria, art, astúcia, engalipada, estratagema, farfolla, sofisma | |
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