Crossword clues for deceitfulness
deceitfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deceitfulness \De*ceit"ful*ness\, n.
The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.
The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
Tendency to mislead or deceive. ``The deceitfulness of riches.''
--Matt. xiii. 22.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being deceitful.
WordNet
n. the quality of being crafty [syn: craftiness, guile]
Usage examples of "deceitfulness".
He omitted the matter of the Prince and the Butteridge aspect of the affair, not out of any deep deceitfulness, but because he felt the inadequacy of his narrative powers.
Aaron assures himself that his newfound deceitfulness is a necessary short-term skill to be abandoned once full-blown devotee-dom has been achieved.
The deceitfulness, that is, the depth of wickedness, and the abominableness, past all words, of thine own heart.
For that singular craft at times evinced by the Sperm Whale when, sounding with his head in one direction, he nevertheless, while concealed beneath the surface, mills round, and swiftly swims off in the opposite quarter — this deceitfulness of his could not now be in action.