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 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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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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