All uprightness antonyms

noun uprightness

• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
• misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
• defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
• lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• in-accuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• flim-flam — Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
• magic word — Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
• amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• blueness — the quality or state of being blue.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
• hosing — an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• breach of faith — a violation of good faith, confidence, or trust; betrayal: To abandon your friends now would be a breach of faith.
• dissipation — the act of dissipating.
• gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
• frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
• hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
• diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
• doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• fibbery — The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
• evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• ambidextrousness — The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
• cozenage — the practice of cozening.
• lewdness — inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
• hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
• delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
• mummery — the performance of mummers.
• bon mot — A bon mot is a clever, witty remark.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• ambidexterity — ambidextrous ease, skill, or facility.
• depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.