'Deceitful' definitions:
Definition of 'deceitful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Deceitful'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'deceitful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- 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