deceitful

3 definitions found

deceitful - 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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Harboring foul deceitful thoughts.       --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

deceitful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

deceitful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "deceitful":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, ambidextrous, arch, artful,
     astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clandestine, clever,
     collusive, counterfeit, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute,
     deceptive, deep, deep-laid, delusive, delusory, designing,
     diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double-dealing,
     double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted,
     duplicitous, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted,
     feline, finagling, forsworn, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful,
     hypocritical, indirect, ingenious, insidious, insincere, inventive,
     knavish, knowing, lying, mendacious, misleading, pawky, perfidious,
     perjured, politic, ready, resourceful, roguish, scheming,
     serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth,
     snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle,
     supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy,
     tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, unfrank,
     unsincere, untrustworthy, untruthful, vulpine, wary, wily