Deceitful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deceitful \De*ceit"ful\, a.
     Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or
     insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
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           Harboring foul deceitful thoughts.       --Shak.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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" [syn: {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
          [syn: {ambidextrous}, {double-dealing}, {duplicitous}, {Janus-faced},
           {two-faced}, {double-faced}, {double-tongued}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "deceitful":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, ambidextrous, arch, artful,
     astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clandestine, clever,
     collusive, counterfeit, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute,
     deceptive, deep, deep-laid, delusive, delusory, designing,
     diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double-dealing,
     double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted,
     duplicitous, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted,
     feline, finagling, forsworn, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful,
     hypocritical, indirect, ingenious, insidious, insincere, inventive,
     knavish, knowing, lying, mendacious, misleading, pawky, perfidious,
     perjured, politic, ready, resourceful, roguish, scheming,
     serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth,
     snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle,
     supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy,
     tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, unfrank,
     unsincere, untrustworthy, untruthful, vulpine, wary, wily