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1. (adj.) deceitful
given to deceiving.
2. deceitful
intended to deceive; misleading:
a deceitful action.
Etymology: (1400–50)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent
intended to deceive
"deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
2. (adj) ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
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
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1. (adj) deceitful
full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere
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Sense: deceiving or insincere
She's such a deceitful child!
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 Afrikaans: bedrieglik, vals |
 Arabic: مُخادِع، غَشّاش |
 Bulgarian: лъжлив |
 Brazilian: dissimulado |
 Czech: prolhaný |
 German: betrügerisch |
 Danish: bedragerisk |
 Greek: δόλιος |
 Spanish: engañoso, falso, tramposo |
 Estonian: valelik |
 Farsi: فریبکار؛ متقلب |
 Finnish: vilpillinen |
 French: trompeur |
 Hebrew: רָמַאי |
 Hindi: छली, कपटी |
 Croatian: prijetvoran, lukav |
 Hungarian: csaló |
 Indonesian: licik |
 Icelandic: fláráður |
 Italian: falso |
 Japanese: うそつきの |
 Korean: 거짓의 |
 Lithuanian: klastingas, linkęs meluot |
 Latvian: melīgs; maldinošs |
 Malay: bertujuan menipu orang |
 Dutch: bedrieglijk |
 Norwegian: svikefull, løgnaktig |
 Polish: podstępny, kłamliwy |
 Persian: فریبکار؛ متقلب |
 Pashto: چالباز |
 Portuguese: dissimulado |
 Romanian: mincinos |
 Russian: лживый |
 Slovak: nečestný |
 Slovenian: goljufiv |
 Serbian: lažljiv |
 Swedish: bedräglig, svekfull |
 Thai: ซึ่งหลอกลวง |
 Turkish: hilekâr, düzenbaz |
 Taiwanese: 愛騙人的 |
 Ukrainian: облудний; брехливий |
 Urdu: دھوکا دینے والا |
 Vietnamese: dối trá |
 Chinese: 不诚实的，骗人的 |
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