All astucious synonyms

adjective astucious

• dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
• insincere — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
• artful — If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people.
• deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
• disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
• duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.
• false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• hypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
• misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
• underhanded — underhand.
• untrustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
• untruthful — not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
• astute — If you describe someone as astute, you think they show an understanding of behaviour and situations, and are skilful at using this knowledge to their own advantage.
• beguiling — Something that is beguiling is charming and attractive.
• clandestine — Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
• crafty — If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• delusive — tending to delude; misleading
• delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
• designing — artful and scheming; conniving; crafty
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• feline — belonging or pertaining to the cat family, Felidae.
• foxy — foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
• furtive — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
• guileful — insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
• illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• indirect — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
• insidious — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
• knavish — like or befitting a knave; untrustworthy; dishonest.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
• rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
• roguish — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
• shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.
• slick — smooth and glossy; sleek.
• sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• sneaky — like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
• stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
• subtle — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
• treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
• tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• two-faced — having two faces.
• underhand — not open and aboveboard; secret and crafty or dishonorable: an underhand deal with the chief of police.
• wily — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
• ambiguous — If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
• deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.