deceitful
Do you like to tell lies? Then you’re deceitful — someone who’s untrustworthy, two-faced, or fraudulent.
Being called deceitful is not a compliment: deceitful words are misleading and deceitful people tend to lie or deceive others. You can say a corrupt business is deceitful, and a two-faced politician is deceitful. A deceitful story is meant to trick you in some way, and a deceitful friend is no friend at all — they’re someone you shouldn’t trust. Deceitful is the opposite of honest.
Definitions of deceitful
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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”-
synonyms:
Janus-faced, ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced-
dishonest, dishonorable
deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
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dishonest, dishonorable
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intended to deceive
“deceitful advertising”“”smooth, shining, and
deceitful as thin ice” – S.T.Coleridge”-
synonyms:
fallacious, fraudulent-
dishonest, dishonorable
deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
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dishonest, dishonorable
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