Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deceitful"
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) 1.7 (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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