Deceitful

a.

1.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. - Shak.

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

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, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, duplicitous, faithless, false-principled, falsehearted, feline, finagling, forsworn, foxy, furtive, guileful, hypocritical, indirect, ingenious, insidious, 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

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