Meaning of DECEITFUL
| Pronunciation: | | di'seetful
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | ambidextrous, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, fallacious, fraudulent, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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