equivocating

STRONGEST

ambiguous cagey deceptive false misleading unclear vague

WEAK

casuistic casuistical cunning devious dissembling elusive elusory fugitive greasy indirect intangible lying oblique prevaricating shifty shuffling slippery sly sophistical stonewalling

STRONGEST

clear definite honest truthful

WEAK

direct forthright ready straight straightforward

STRONGEST

misleading

STRONG

dissembling dissimulating double-crossing double-dealing falsifying fibbing inventing misrepresenting misstating prevaricating two-timing wrong

WEAK

committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory false guileful mendacious perfidious shifty treacherous tricky two-faced unreliable untruthful

STRONG

honest

WEAK

direct frank

WEAK

deceitful deceptive duplicitous erroneous fallacious false fibbing fraudulent insincere lying paltering perfidious perjured prevaricating shifty spurious untrue untruthful wrong

WEAK

frank honest sincere truthful

STRONG

forsworn lying misleading

WEAK

bearing false witness commiting perjury deceptive swearing falsely

STRONG

honest

WEAK

committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory dissembling dissimulating double-crossing double-dealing false falsifying fibbing forsworn guileful inventing mendacious misleading misrepresenting misstating perfidious perjured prevaricating shifty treacherous tricky two-faced two-timing unreliable untruthful wrong

STRONGEST

cagey crafty shrewd slippery sneaky tricky wily

WEAK

collusive conniving contriving crooked cunning devious dishonest dodging duplicitous elusive evasive fly-by-night foxy fraudulent furtive insidious lying mendacious prevaricative prevaricatory roguish scheming shady shuffling slick slimy sly treacherous underhand unhonest unprincipled untruthful

STRONGEST

aboveboard frank honest naive

WEAK

forthright trustworthy

STRONGEST

dodging

STRONG

artifice circumvention cunning ditch dodge elusion equivocation evasiveness excuse jive lie obliqueness pretext prevarication quibble routine ruse shift shirking shuffling shunning sophism sophistry stall subterfuge trick trickery

WEAK

come-off cop-out eschewal evading fancy footwork fudging fugiviteness fugivity runaround stonewall

STRONG

directness frankness honesty openness reality truth

WEAK

facing meeting