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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. intended to deceive;
- Example: "deceitful advertising"
- Example: "fallacious testimony"
- Example: "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge;
- Example: "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;
- Example: "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill
- Example: "a double-dealing double agent"
- Example: "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
[syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]


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. [1913 Webster] Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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]
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