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English Dictionary: deceitful by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deceitful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): deceitful, 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
    Synonym(s): ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deceitful \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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