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deceitful, a.|dɪˈsiːtfʊl|
Forms: see deceit.
[f. deceit + -ful.]
Full of deceit; given to deceiving or cheating; misleading, false, fallacious. (As said of things often = deceptive.)
1483Cath. Angl. 97 Desatefulle, vbi false. 1500–20Dunbar Flyting 75 Dissaitfull tyrand, with serpentis tung, vnstable. 1513Douglas æneis ix. vii. 52 Throw the dern wod dyssaitfull and onplane. 1584D. Powel Lloyd's Cambria 104 A Deceiptfull and Subtile man. 1641Wilkins Math. Magick i. iii. (1648) 19 Such deceitfull ballances may be discovered..by changing the weights. 1842Lytton Zanoni 29 Appearances are deceitful. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. ix. §1. 113 They may be the most false and deceitful of human kind. |