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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. intended to deceive;
- Example: "deceitful advertising"
- Example: "fallacious testimony"
- Example: "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge;
- Example: "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
[syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent]

2. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another;
- Example: "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill
- Example: "a double-dealing double agent"
- Example: "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
[syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Deceitful \De*ceit"ful\, a.
   Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or
   insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
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         Harboring foul deceitful thoughts.       --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deceitful
    adj 1: 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: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent]
    2: 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, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous,
       Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]