CANDOUR Antonyms

• a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

• the condition of being concealed or hidden

• a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

• the activity of keeping something secret

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• intentionally vague or ambiguous

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• the quality of being crafty

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction

• insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have

• the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

• position or manner in which something is situated

• be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

• be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position

• originate (in)

• be and remain in a particular state or condition

• tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive

• have a place in relation to something else

• assume a reclining position