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Similar meaning 6

Unfair 84% connected

To deprive of fairness or beauty.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unfair 84% connected

To deprive of fairness or beauty.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Unfaithful 84% connected

Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unfaithful 84% connected

Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unjust 84% connected

Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.

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Unjust 84% connected

Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 4

Deceit 76% connected

An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe wha…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deception 76% connected

The act of deceiving or misleading.

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Dissembling 76% connected

of Dissemble

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Dissimulation 76% connected

The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 1

Gerrymander 76% connected

To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advant…

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Derivationally related 2

Cheat 74% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cheat 74% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Synonym 4

Adulterous 92% connected

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Cheat 92% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dirty 92% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foul 92% connected

A bird.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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