Deceitful
[dɪ'siːtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or [dɪ'sitfl]
Definition
(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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Definition
(a.) Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Deceptive, delusive, illusive, illusory, fallacious.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Deceptive, delusive, fraudulent, fallacious
ANT:Open, fair, honest, truthful, veracious
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Examples
- You disgusting, deceitful creature! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She received my concurrence with pleasure, and a thousand times over thanked her deceiving, deceitful brother. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But you'll find, when you come to manage, that there's no getting along without severity,--they are so bad, so deceitful, so lazy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A deceitful woman, a wronged man, a treacherous friend—a common enough tale, I think. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Why, you yourself are worth fifty women; I never see such a precious sly and deceitful creetur as yer can be when I let yer. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In her place the despicably small pride which makes so many women deceitful would have been my pride, and would have made me deceitful too. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He has been very deceitful! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- You told Mr. Brocklehurst I had a bad character, a deceitful disposition; and I'll let everybody at Lowood know what you are, and what you have done. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I should call it the conduct of a meanly deceitful man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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