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deceitful

Dictionary result for deceitful

/dɪˈsiːtfʊl,dɪˈsiːtf(ə)l/

adjective

adjective: deceitful

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;

informalsneaky, tricky, foxy, crooked, sharp, shady, shifty, slippery;

informalbent;

informalslim;

archaicsubtle, hollow-hearted;

rarefalse-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic

"he is surrounded by deceitful advisors"

fraudulent, counterfeit, fabricated, invented, concocted, made up, trumped up, untrue, hollow, false, sham, bogus, fake, illusory, spurious, specious, fallacious, deceptive, misleading, misguided, distorted;

informalfakey;

humorouseconomical with the truth

"they dismissed the allegations as deceitful"