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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deceitful \De*ceit"ful\, a. Full of or characterized by deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: {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}, {double-dealing}, {duplicitous}, {Janus-faced}, {two-faced}, {double-faced}, {double-tongued}]
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