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Meaning of deceitful

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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: {deceitful}, {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}, {deceitful}, {double-dealing}, {duplicitous},
         {Janus-faced}, {two-faced}, {double-faced}, {double-tongued}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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