insidious



Byzantine, Machiavellian, acute, amoral, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiselling, clever, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt,

   dying for - bent on, desirous of, fain, fond of, inclined, itching, keen on, partial to, set on, starved ,

   so so - average, betwixt and between, dull, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fairly, indifferent, indifferently, insipid, lacklustre, mediocre, medium, middling, middling well,

   wolfishly - atrociously, avidly, cruelly, ferociously ,

   affirmative - OK, absolute, acceptance, accord, accordant, acquiescence, acquiescent, affirmation, affirmative attitude, affirmative voice, agree, agreeable, agreeing, agreement, amen,

   upper limit - bound, boundary, ceiling, circumscription, compass, confine, cut-off, deadline, delimitation, determinant, end, extremity, finish, floor, frontier,

   blow off - attenuate, beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, blow, cast forth, clear away, crab, dilute, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, drive away, evaporate,

   without foundation - baseless, built on sand, empty, groundless, idle, ill-founded, not well-founded, unfounded, ungrounded, unsupportable, unsupported, unsustainable, untenable, unwarranted, vain,

   virulently - furiously, harmfully, like mad, madly, malevolently, malignantly, rigorously, violently, wildly, with a vengeance ,

   deception - acting, affectation, airy nothing, appearance, artifice, attitudinising, autism, bluff, bluffing, bubble, burial, burying, casuistry, cheat, cheating,

   amphibious operations - action, dry run, joint operation, logistics, manoeuvre, military operations, mission, movement, operation ,