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Definition of deceitful in English: deceitfuladjective dɪˈsiːtf(ə)ldɪˈsiːtfʊldəˈsitfəl Guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others. such an act would have been deceitful and irresponsible 这样的行为会是欺诈而不负责任的。 Example sentencesExamples - That is so wilfully deceitful as to constitute a lie.
- Obviously, business risk is inherent in investing and we can't protect against it, but we can protect against risks of dishonesty and deceitful conduct.
- The potential for dishonourable companies to act in this deceitful and dishonest manner will be given oxygen and allowed to profit by using the method blueprinted in this matter.
- All girls are deceitful, evil creatures, he thought.
- But the more you look into his claims, the more they seem deceitful.
- So I think both sides are being untruthful and even deceitful on this.
- Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
- Choderlos de Laclos' 18 th-century novel is a marvellous monument to lust, guilt and deceitful manipulation written in letter form.
- People have been known to be deceitful about many things on the Internet.
- I should point out, though, that Range is as wrong as he is deceitful.
- It really is such a shame that society has turned us into such deceitful people.
- He's a deceitful, cowardly, treacherous and thoroughly unlikable man.
- Distressed by his deceitful, frivolous use of their savings, the Blackwells told friends that they would never again trust their son with money.
- These deceitful tactics are plunging mid- and low-income individuals and their families into deeper and deeper debt causing all sorts of unspeakable social vices.
- No one expects markets to work when people are deceitful and manipulative.
- ‘She was ruthlessly ambitious, sexually rapacious, and blatantly deceitful,’ said Leigh.
- If these figures are accurate, the corollary suggests that there are also an awful lot of deceitful men out there, fathering babies they'll never raise and without a thought to the welfare of these children.
- Am I being deceitful and unkind to keep him hanging on?
- Of course I don't think that the purveyors of ID really think this way, it's just a deceitful and hypocritical marketing strategy.
- He was an unprincipled, deceitful, arrogant young man, dangerous to those around him and too powerful for his own good.
- Viewers are repeatedly given indications that there is one, distinct meaning lying behind each image, yet this is a cleverly deceitful ploy.
- He is an extremely dangerous and deceitful man, who thinks he can pull the wool over the American public's eyes.
- She was deceitful and had absolutely no conscience.
- ‘In the context of these admissions, it follows that she agreed to provide a false, deceitful account,’ Mr Latham said.
- You think he is deceitful because you feel that you were led to believe that he, too, might fall in love.
- In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry and deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs.
- He was an okay guy as far as basketball went, but in other areas of life, the guy was conniving and deceitful.
- I forced a smile, a lying, deceitful, false smile, as if that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.
- Symkyn was extremely deceitful and dishonest in his work and cheated the college most of all.
- It did not necessarily mean that any of the witnesses were being deliberately deceitful and dishonest.
- All of a sudden, what I thought was a relatively healthy and honest relationship turns out to be a run-of-the-mill deceitful one, in which I am the cuckold.
- So when I tell you now that you should come clean to your wife, it's because I believe you when you say that you are a reformed character and that it is now no longer part of your make-up to be deceitful.
- It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
- He said the jurors should only consider the defendant's lies and deceitful behaviour as evidence against him if they were sure they were the actions of a man trying to cover up murder.
- First, they're deceitful and adept at concealing their true intentions.
- But when we use that deceitful term, one-parent, we actually mean fatherless, in the social meaning of the word, though not of course in the genetic sense.
- This is deceitful and wrong - not to mention unnecessary.
- His behavior was not only deceitful and unethical, but it was also potentially damaging to his own party.
- Since Social Services expenditure is only 23 per cent of the total budget, to imply that most of the tax increase is to improve services for the elderly is deceitful political spin.
Synonyms dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false, deceiving, dissembling, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, cheating, underhand, crafty, cunning, sly, guileful, scheming, calculating, conniving, designing, hypocritical, perfidious, treacherous, Machiavellian, Janus-faced informal sneaky, tricky, foxy, crooked, sharp, shady, shifty, slippery British informal bent South African informal slim archaic subtle, hollow-hearted rare false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic fraudulent, counterfeit, fabricated, invented, concocted, made up, trumped up, untrue, hollow, false, sham, bogus, fake, illusory, spurious, specious, fallacious, deceptive, misleading, misguided, distorted humorous economical with the truth
Derivativesadverbdɪˈsiːtfʊlidɪˈsiːtfəlidəˈsitfəli So long as they don't act dishonestly or deceitfully, and so long as they don't violate some specific law, people living in our society are still free to conduct their affairs any which way they please. Example sentencesExamples - Zhuu accused the hospital of deceitfully undertaking unnecessary examinations and prescribing expensive medicines just to make a bigger profit.
- When only 40,000 people showed up for the anti-gun Million-Mom March a few years ago, the mainstream media deceitfully reported an estimated attendance of 750,000.
- Now those costs of training, the costs of recruitment, the costs of advertising, may be visited upon employees who deceitfully lie in their c.vs.
- It encouraged me to live deceitfully; I enjoyed living a lie.
noundɪˈsiːtfʊlnəsdɪˈsiːtfəlnəsdəˈsitfəlnəs You are basically endorsing his deceitfulness if you continue this friendship. Example sentencesExamples - She inspected his face, looking for signs of deceitfulness, finding none.
- Despite her deceitfulness and fraudulent behaviour, you want her to succeed.
- I've put up with your lies and deceitfulness for far too long now.
- You should be ashamed of yourselves at displaying your deceitfulness and ignorance.
Definition of deceitful in US English: deceitfuladjectivedəˈsētfəldəˈsitfəl Guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others. such an act would have been deceitful and irresponsible 这样的行为会是欺诈而不负责任的。 Example sentencesExamples - It did not necessarily mean that any of the witnesses were being deliberately deceitful and dishonest.
- Obviously, business risk is inherent in investing and we can't protect against it, but we can protect against risks of dishonesty and deceitful conduct.
- In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry and deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs.
- Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
- This is deceitful and wrong - not to mention unnecessary.
- His behavior was not only deceitful and unethical, but it was also potentially damaging to his own party.
- Viewers are repeatedly given indications that there is one, distinct meaning lying behind each image, yet this is a cleverly deceitful ploy.
- He is an extremely dangerous and deceitful man, who thinks he can pull the wool over the American public's eyes.
- He was an unprincipled, deceitful, arrogant young man, dangerous to those around him and too powerful for his own good.
- She was deceitful and had absolutely no conscience.
- You think he is deceitful because you feel that you were led to believe that he, too, might fall in love.
- First, they're deceitful and adept at concealing their true intentions.
- I should point out, though, that Range is as wrong as he is deceitful.
- It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
- Distressed by his deceitful, frivolous use of their savings, the Blackwells told friends that they would never again trust their son with money.
- If these figures are accurate, the corollary suggests that there are also an awful lot of deceitful men out there, fathering babies they'll never raise and without a thought to the welfare of these children.
- That is so wilfully deceitful as to constitute a lie.
- But when we use that deceitful term, one-parent, we actually mean fatherless, in the social meaning of the word, though not of course in the genetic sense.
- ‘In the context of these admissions, it follows that she agreed to provide a false, deceitful account,’ Mr Latham said.
- So I think both sides are being untruthful and even deceitful on this.
- These deceitful tactics are plunging mid- and low-income individuals and their families into deeper and deeper debt causing all sorts of unspeakable social vices.
- The potential for dishonourable companies to act in this deceitful and dishonest manner will be given oxygen and allowed to profit by using the method blueprinted in this matter.
- He said the jurors should only consider the defendant's lies and deceitful behaviour as evidence against him if they were sure they were the actions of a man trying to cover up murder.
- No one expects markets to work when people are deceitful and manipulative.
- He was an okay guy as far as basketball went, but in other areas of life, the guy was conniving and deceitful.
- All of a sudden, what I thought was a relatively healthy and honest relationship turns out to be a run-of-the-mill deceitful one, in which I am the cuckold.
- Of course I don't think that the purveyors of ID really think this way, it's just a deceitful and hypocritical marketing strategy.
- But the more you look into his claims, the more they seem deceitful.
- Since Social Services expenditure is only 23 per cent of the total budget, to imply that most of the tax increase is to improve services for the elderly is deceitful political spin.
- Choderlos de Laclos' 18 th-century novel is a marvellous monument to lust, guilt and deceitful manipulation written in letter form.
- All girls are deceitful, evil creatures, he thought.
- So when I tell you now that you should come clean to your wife, it's because I believe you when you say that you are a reformed character and that it is now no longer part of your make-up to be deceitful.
- It really is such a shame that society has turned us into such deceitful people.
- I forced a smile, a lying, deceitful, false smile, as if that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.
- Am I being deceitful and unkind to keep him hanging on?
- People have been known to be deceitful about many things on the Internet.
- Symkyn was extremely deceitful and dishonest in his work and cheated the college most of all.
- ‘She was ruthlessly ambitious, sexually rapacious, and blatantly deceitful,’ said Leigh.
- He's a deceitful, cowardly, treacherous and thoroughly unlikable man.
Synonyms dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false, deceiving, dissembling, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, cheating, underhand, crafty, cunning, sly, guileful, scheming, calculating, conniving, designing, hypocritical, perfidious, treacherous, machiavellian, janus-faced fraudulent, counterfeit, fabricated, invented, concocted, made up, trumped up, untrue, hollow, false, sham, bogus, fake, illusory, spurious, specious, fallacious, deceptive, misleading, misguided, distorted
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