Deceitful

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  • adjective. Given to cheating or deceiving.
  • adjective. Deliberately misleading; deceptive. synonym: dishonest.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of deceit; tending to mislead, deceive, or insnare; tricky; fraudulent; cheating.
  • Synonyms Deceptive, Deceitful, etc. (see deceptive), delusive, fallacious, insincere, hypocritical, false, hollow.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. deliberately misleading or cheating
  • adjective. deceptive in multiple ways
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
  • adjective. intended to deceive
    • Word Usage
    "The counselor to the president's accusing the network of what it calls deceitful editing, twisting the president's words."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    conscientious  frank  
    Equivalent
    dishonest  dishonorable  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    covetous  crafty  deceptive  devious  dishonest  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Jesuitical  Machiavellian  Machiavellic  acute  ambidextrous  
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