deceitful

Definition von deceitful im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: deceptive in multiple ways; deliberately misleading or cheating; fraudulent; {a} full of deceit, treacherous, false, base; intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice"; Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere; intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S T Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"; {s} deceptive, dishonest; - S; intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S; 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; If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true. The ambassador called the report deceitful and misleading. someone who is deceitful tells lies in order to get what they want; Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes; braid; deceivable
deceit: An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
deceit: The state of being deceitful or deceptive
deceit: An act of deceiving someone
deceitfully: with the intention to deceive
deceitfully: in a deceitful manner
deceit: falsehood
deceitfulness: fraudulence
deceit: the act of deceiving
deceit: {n} treachery, cheat, artifice, pretence
deceitfully: {a} in a deceitful manner, falsely
deceitfulness: {n} a tendency to deceive, deceit
Deceitfully: doubly
deceit: Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation
deceit: {i} deception, trickery, cheating
deceit: Any attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud
deceit: An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud
deceit: Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another
deceit: The Tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury
deceit: the quality of being fraudulent
deceit: a misleading falsehood
deceit: Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true. They have been involved in a campaign of deceit. = deception. behaviour that is intended to make someone believe something that is not true (decipere; DECEIVE)
deceit: When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation
deceit: cautel
deceitfully: With intent to deceive
deceitfully: in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend"
deceitfully: deceptively, dishonestly
deceitfulness: The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices
deceitfulness: The state or quality of being deceitful
deceitfulness: the quality of being crafty
deceitfulness: The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual
deceitfulness: {i} dishonesty, falseness
deceitfulness: Tendency to mislead or deceive