About The Word Deceitful
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Deceitful
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What's The Definition Of Deceitful?
[adj] marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
[adj] intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deceitful: ambidextrous | dishonest | dishonorable | double-dealing | double-faced | double-tongued | duplicitous | fallacious | fraudulent | Janus-faced | two-faced Related Terms | Find terms related to Deceitful: acute | ambidextrous | arch | artful | astute | cagey | calculating | canny | chiseling | clandestine | clever | collusive | counterfeit | covinous | crafty | crooked | cunning | cute | deceptive | deep | deep-laid | delusive | delusory | designing | diplomatic | dishonest | disingenuous | double | double-dealing | double-faced | doublehearted | double-minded | double-tongued | duplicitous | faithless | false | falsehearted | false-principled | feline | finagling | forsworn | foxy | fraudulent | furtive | guileful | hypocritical | indirect | ingenious | insidious | insincere | inventive | knavish | knowing | lying | Machiavellian | Machiavellic | mendacious | misleading | pawky | perfidious | perjured | politic | ready | resourceful | roguish | scheming | serpentine | sharp | shifty | shrewd | slick | slippery | sly | smooth | snaky | sneaky | sophistical | stealthy | strategic | subtile | subtle | supple | surreptitious | tactical | treacherous | trickish | tricksy | tricky | two-faced | uncandid | underhand | underhanded | unfrank | unsincere | untrustworthy | untruthful | vulpine | wary | wily See Also | Deceitful In Webster's Dictionary \De*ceit"ful\, a.
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or
insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. --Shak.
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