Antonyms for deceitful

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dih-seet-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsit fəl

Definition of deceitful

Origin : mid-15c., from deceit + -ful. Related: Deceitfully; deceitfulness.

adj dishonest, insincere

Example sentences :

Yet, I warn you, appearances are deceitful; he is always drunker than he looks.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

His animal nature was predominant, and this led him to be deceitful.
Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor

The world is a miserable, hollow, deceitful shell of vanity and hypocrisy.
Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor

This kind of political economy can only be qualified as false and deceitful.
Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel

But he had been deceitful—and to Martha Phipps, of all people.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

In fact he wrote that he thought it all wrong, deceitful, bordering on the dishonest.
Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln

To do this now that I knew I loved him would be deceitful, mean, almost treacherous.
Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine

Mist is deceitful, the dead luminosity of the fog is irritating.
Extract from : « Tales Of Hearsay » by Joseph Conrad

How true the words of Solomon: “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain!”
Extract from : « A Book of Burlesques » by H. L. Mencken

I know what men are; how deceitful in their words; how unkind in their judgments.
Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan

Synonyms for deceitful

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