a. | 1. | Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. |
Adj. | 1. | deceitful - intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" Synonyms: fraudulent, fallacious |
2. | deceitful - 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 Synonyms: double-dealing, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced, ambidextrous, Janus-faced, double-faced |