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{
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"sly":{
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"clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means":{
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"examples":[
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"the movie pairs a sly , dissembling ex-con with an upstanding, straight-arrow cop"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"artful",
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"beguiling",
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"cagey",
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"cagy",
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"crafty",
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"cunning",
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"cute",
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"designing",
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"devious",
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"dodgy",
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"foxy",
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"guileful",
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"scheming",
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"shrewd",
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"slick",
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"subtle",
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"tricky",
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"wily"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"astute",
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"facile",
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"glib",
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"sharp",
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"crooked",
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"deceitful",
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"deceptive",
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"dishonest",
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"fraudulent",
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"insinuating",
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"knavish",
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"Machiavellian",
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"oblique",
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"serpentine",
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"shady",
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"shifty",
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"slippery",
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"sneaky",
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"treacherous",
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"underhand",
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"underhanded",
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"unscrupulous",
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"backhanded",
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"double-dealing",
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"hypocritical",
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"insincere",
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"left-handed",
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"mealy",
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"mealymouthed",
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"smooth-tongued",
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"two-faced",
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"circuitous",
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"circular",
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"roundabout",
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"clandestine",
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"concealed",
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"covert",
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"furtive",
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"hugger-mugger",
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"secret",
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"stealthy",
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"surreptitious",
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"undercover",
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"calculating",
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"plotting"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"obvious",
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"open",
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"patent",
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"plain",
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"public",
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"unconcealed",
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"aboveboard",
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"candid",
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"direct",
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"forthright",
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"frank",
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"honest",
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"natural",
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"outspoken",
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"plainspoken",
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"real",
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"simple",
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"sincere",
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"straightforward",
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"unaffected",
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"unpretending",
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"unpretentious",
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"unvarnished",
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"childlike",
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"impressionable",
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"simpleminded",
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"unsophisticated",
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"unworldly",
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"unforced",
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"unstudied",
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"trustful",
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"trusting"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"artless",
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"guileless",
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"ingenuous",
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"innocent",
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"undesigning"
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]
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},
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"given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions":{
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"examples":[
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"why, you sly fellow! I had no idea you were planning my birthday party",
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"a sly undercover police officer"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"furtive",
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"shady",
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"shifty",
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"slippery",
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"sneaking",
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"sneaky",
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"stealthy"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"artful",
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"crafty",
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"cunning",
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"devious",
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"foxy",
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"guileful",
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"slick",
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"wily",
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"close",
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"closemouthed",
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"reticent",
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"secretive",
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"clandestine",
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"covert",
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"dark",
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"deceitful",
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"deceiving",
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"deceptive",
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"devious",
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"duplicitous",
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"trickish",
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"tricky",
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"underhand",
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"underhanded",
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"cheating",
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"crooked",
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"defrauding",
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"dishonest",
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"dissembling",
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"double-dealing",
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"knavish",
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"two-faced",
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"lying",
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"mendacious",
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"untrustworthy",
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"untruthful",
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"insidious",
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"perfidious",
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"serpentine",
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"treacherous"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"aboveboard",
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"forthright",
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"plainspoken",
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"straightforward",
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"candid",
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"direct",
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"foursquare",
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"frank",
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"open",
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"plain",
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"honest",
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"trustworthy",
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"truthful"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness":{
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"examples":[
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"a sly sense of humor"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"arch",
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"devilish",
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"elvish",
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"espi\u00e8gle",
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"impish",
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"knavish",
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"leprechaunish",
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"mischievous",
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"pixie",
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"pixy",
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"pixieish",
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"prankish",
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"puckish",
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"rascally",
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"roguish",
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"scampish",
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"tricksy",
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"waggish",
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"wicked"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"antic",
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"coltish",
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"coy",
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"frisky",
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"frolicsome",
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"kittenish",
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"playful",
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"sportful",
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"sportive",
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"gay",
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"happy",
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"lighthearted",
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"whimsical",
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"energetic",
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"lively",
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"spirited",
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"sprightly",
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"artful",
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"crafty",
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"cunning",
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"trickish",
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"tricky",
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"wily",
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"misbehaving",
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"naughty",
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"troublemaking",
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"pestering",
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"riling",
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"teasing"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"grave",
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"grim",
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"sedate",
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"sober",
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"solemn",
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"staid",
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"stern"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"slyness":{
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"skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means":{
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"examples":[
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"the slyness with which the FBI agent infiltrated the subversive organization without their knowledge was indeed impressive"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"artfulness",
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"artifice",
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"caginess",
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"cageyness",
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"canniness",
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"craft",
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"craftiness",
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"cunning",
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"cunningness",
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"deviousness",
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"foxiness",
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"guile",
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"guilefulness",
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"slickness",
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"sneakiness",
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"subtleness",
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"subtlety",
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"wiliness"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"calculation",
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"care",
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"design",
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"savvy",
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"sharpness",
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"shrewdness",
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"cleverness",
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"ingeniousness",
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"ingenuity",
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"inventiveness",
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"ease",
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"facility",
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"finesse",
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"deceitfulness",
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"duplicity",
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"shiftiness",
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"underhandedness"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"slyly":{
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"as in craftily , cunningly":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"near synonyms":[
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"archly",
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"calculatingly",
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"craftily",
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"cunningly",
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"furtively",
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"insidiously",
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"sharply",
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"shiftily",
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"slickly",
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"underhand",
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"underhanded",
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"underhandedly",
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"artfully",
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"cannily",
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"deceitfully",
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"deceptively",
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"deviously",
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"dishonestly",
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"falsely",
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"flatteringly",
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"sycophantically",
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"unctuously",
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"affectedly",
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"artificially",
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"hypocritically",
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"insincerely",
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"pretentiously",
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"unnaturally"
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"near antonyms":[
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"artlessly",
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"guilelessly",
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"ingenuously",
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"innocently",
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"naively",
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"na\u00efvely",
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"naturally",
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"sincerely",
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"unaffectedly",
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"unfeignedly",
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"unpretentiously",
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"genuinely",
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"honestly",
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"simply",
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"truly",
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"freely",
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"openheartedly",
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"openly"
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"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
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"adverb"
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"slyboots":{
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"someone who acts in a sly and secret manner":{
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"examples":[
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"the whole family adored the impish little slyboots , despite his endless pranks"
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"synonyms":[
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"lurker",
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"skulk",
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"skulker",
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"sneak",
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"sneaker"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"skunk",
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"snake",
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"weasel",
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"sharper",
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"sharpie",
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"sharpy",
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"slicker",
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"swindler",
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"snoop",
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"snooper",
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"spy",
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"stalker"
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],
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"near antonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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]
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}
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}
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