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deceitful
Overview of adj deceitful
The adj deceitful has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent -- (intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes")
2. ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued -- (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)
Grep of noun deceitful
deceitfulness
Antonyms of adj deceitful
2 senses of deceitful
Sense 1
deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent
INDIRECT (VIA dishonest) -> honest, honorable
Sense 2
ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
INDIRECT (VIA dishonest) -> honest, honorable
Similarity of adj deceitful
2 senses of deceitful
Sense 1
deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent
=> dishonest (vs. honest), dishonorable
Sense 2
ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
=> dishonest (vs. honest), dishonorable
Pertainyms of adj deceitful
Attributes of adj deceitful
Domain of adj deceitful
Domain Terms of adj deceitful
Familiarity of adj deceitful
deceitful used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj deceitful
deceitful
Grep of adv deceitful
deceitfully
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