adjective
- Intended to deceive.
- usage: "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S. T. Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
- synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent
- 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
- synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
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