deceitful
from
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}]
from
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
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