Crossword clues for deceitful
deceitful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deceitful \De*ceit"ful\, a. Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
Harboring foul deceitful thoughts.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from deceit + -ful. Related: Deceitfully; deceitfulness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 deliberately misleading or cheating 2 deceptive in multiple ways
WordNet
adj. 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]
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]
Usage examples of "deceitful".
Objection 1: It seems that the accidents do not remain in this sacrament without a subject, because there ought not to be anything disorderly or deceitful in this sacrament of truth.
It was the former President who had delivered Babcock into the deceitful, violent hands of the PIO.
Mark: Clement explained that a licentious heretical group called the Carpocratians had come upon the secret gospel through deceitful means and that the text was not to be considered accurate.
The fact that she was a low-class, deceitful Irishwoman caused Granger only minor worry.
Orchidaceae, its wiles arrayed in every deceitful variation of shape and odour, colour and design to target randy insects with spurious promises of sex and nectar provoking frenzies of pseudocopulation and the consequent deposit of their pollen elsewhere it would do the most good, rearing up with was that the phone?
Delighted at hearing that oracles were not yet defunct, and satisfied that they will endure as long as there are in this world simpleminded men and deceitful, cunning priests, I follow the good man, who took me to his tartan and treated me to an excellent breakfast.
Like a dying man who eagerly listens to deceitful promises of recovery, although he feels himself sinking into the grave, did Prosper feel his sad heart cheered by M.
Vexation inspired me with a deceitful stratagem which arose from a feeling you had caused yourself, and which turned entirely to your honour, for you must admit that you would have shewn a very hard heart if you had not come to my assistance.
Wishing to probe the disposition of her son, whom I had engaged to take away with me, I addressed several remarks to him, and soon discovered that he was of a false and deceitful nature, always on his guard, taking care of what he said, and consequently speaking only from his head and not from his heart.
If I find you deceitful and suspicious I shall certainly entertain no regard for you.
They would die, so the Praetor and his ilk could survive to build another empire more selfish and deceitful than the last, succession upon succession of overindulged parasites feeding on the toil of others.
In Kesey's view, modern society is a reflection of womanish values archetypically responsible, cautious, repressive, deceitful, and solemn.
In Kesey's view, modern society is a reflection of womanish values--archetypically responsible, cautious, repressive, deceitful, and solemn.
In the time of his long Slumber the land had fallen into a ruin of warring baronies, ruled by barons hard or decadent, but every last one of them deceitful.
Each was given its own sharply delineated personality traits: the Aristocratic Philosopher: the Promiscuous Child-Woman: the First Rich Ex--Wife (a Bitch): the Aging Groupie: the Pope’s Driver: the Underwater Plumber: the Traumatized Quarterback: the Blackballed Golfer: the Three Society Girls: the Playboys: the Golden Child and His Ideal Mother: the Deceitful Publisher: the Angry Professor: the Goddess of Victory (an exceptionally beautiful cyborg modeled after Kronos’s abandoned lover.