deceitful, adj.
marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
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Janus-faced ambidextrous deceitful double-dealing double-faced double-tongued duplicitous two-faced
sample sentences
"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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intended to deceive
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deceitful fallacious fraudulent
sample sentences
"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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