About The Word Deceitful

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Deceitful

Deceitful Meaning & Definition
Deceitful Definition And Meaning

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

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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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