Deceitful \De*ceit"ful\, a.
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or
insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
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Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
deceitful
adj 1: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious
testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin
ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape
paying taxes" [syn: fallacious, fraudulent]
2: 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
[syn: ambidextrous, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced,
two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]
WordNet (r) 2.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "deceitful":
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, 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, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted,
duplicitous, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted,
feline, finagling, forsworn, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful,
hypocritical, indirect, ingenious, insidious, insincere, inventive,
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, treacherous, trickish, tricksy,
tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, unfrank,
unsincere, untrustworthy, untruthful, vulpine, wary, wily
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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