Synonyms for deceitful
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dih-seet-fuhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsit fəl |
Top 10 synonyms for deceitful
- astucious
- astute
- beguiling
- clandestine
- counterfeit
- crafty
- cunning
- deceiving
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- double-dealing
- fallacious
- feline
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- impostrous
- indirect
- insidious
- knavish
- lying
- mendacious
- rascal
- roguish
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- untruthful
- wily
Définition of deceitful
Origin :- mid-15c., from deceit + -ful. Related: Deceitfully; deceitfulness.
- adj dishonest, insincere
- 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
Antonyms for deceitful
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