deceitful
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(satellite 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" |
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Synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent |
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(satellite 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 |
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Synonyms: Janus-faced, ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced |
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