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deceitful - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to cheating or deceiving.
- adjective Deliberately misleading; deceptive. synonym: dishonest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of deceit; tending to mislead, deceive, or insnare; tricky; fraudulent; cheating.
- Synonyms Deceptive, Deceitful, etc. (see
deceptive ), delusive, fallacious, insincere, hypocritical, false, hollow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
deliberately misleading orcheating - adjective
deceptive in multiple ways
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
- adjective intended to deceive
Etymologies
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deceit + -ful
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Examples
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The counselor to the president's accusing the network of what it calls deceitful editing, twisting the president's words.
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And then it was that we told the "innocent child" (that's what we call the deceitful cat) everything.
A Young Girl's Diary 1923
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And then it was that we told the "innocent child" (that's what we call the deceitful cat) everything.
A Young Girl's Diary Anonymous 1897
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For CBS to run an ad during a family event from an organization so hateful and deceitful is shameful.
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Amazingly the train halted along the dark countryside, from time to time indulging in short, deceitful movements backward or forward, and whistling harsh paeans into the high October night.
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And while it's hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative, I remember Ben Franklin's admonition that our critics are our friends, for they do show us our faults.
Statement By The President ITY National Archives 1998
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Amazingly the train halted along the dark countryside, from time to time indulging in short, deceitful movements backward or forward, and whistling harsh paeans into the high October night.
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"If you call her deceitful, what are you?" he sputtered.
Set in Silver 1901
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I must weave a veil of dazzling falsehood to hide my grief from vulgar eyes, smoothe my brow, and paint my lips in deceitful smiles -- even in solitude I dare not think how lost I am, lest I become insane and rave.
I.9 1826
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And while it's hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative, I remember Ben Franklin's admonition that our critics are our friends, for they do show us our faults.
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Neophyte 2010
Related Words
synonyms (112)
Words with the same meaning
- Jesuitical
- Machiavellian
- Machiavellic
- acute
- ambidextrous
- arch
- artful
- astute
- cagey
- calculating
- canny
- cheating
- chiseling
- circumventive
- clandestine
- clever
- collusive
- counterfeit
- covinous
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- cute
- deceivable
- deceptive
- deep
- deep-laid
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- diplomatic
- dishonest
- disingenuous
- dissembling
- dodgy
- double
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
- double-minded
- double-tongued
- doublehearted
- duplicitous
- evasive
- faithless
- false
- false-principled
- falsehearted
- feline
- finagling
- forsworn
- foxy
- fraudful
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- histrionic
- hypocritical
- indirect
- ingenious
- insidious
- insincere
- intriguing
- inventive
- juggling
- knavish
- knowing
- lying
- 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
- theatrical
- treacherous
- trickish
- tricksy
- tricky
- two-faced
- uncandid
- underhand
- underhanded
- unfrank
- unsincere
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- vulpine
- wary
- wily
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