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English adjective: deceitful | |||
| 1. | deceitful intended to deceive | ||
| Samples | Deceitful advertising. Fallacious testimony. Smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice. A fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes. | ||
| Synonyms | fallacious, fraudulent | ||
| Similar | dishonest, dishonorable | ||
| Antonyms | honest, honorable | ||
| 2. | deceitful marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | ||
| Samples | She was a deceitful scheming little thing. A double-dealing double agent. A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer. | ||
| Synonyms | ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced | ||
| Similar | dishonest, dishonorable | ||
| Antonyms | honest, honorable | ||
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