Deceitful

Definitions: Deceitful

Deceitful

Adjective

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".

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.

Date "deceitful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Deceitful

Synonyms: ambidextrous (adj), double-dealing (adj), double-faced (adj), double-tongued (adj), duplicitous (adj), fallacious (adj), fraudulent (adj), two-faced (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cunning	Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.
Deception	Adjective: deceived; Verb: deceiving; cunning; prestigious, prestigiatory; deceptive, deceptious; deceitful, covinous; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus.
Error	Illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal; (imaginary); spurious; deceitful; perverted.
Falsehood	Adjective: false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I've never met anyone so deceitful, and I'm in politics! (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

I am not deceitful! If I were, I should say I loved you. (Jane Eyre; writing credit: Hugh Whitemore)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Deceitful Heart (reference) Deceitful Above All Things (reference) Deceitful Charms (reference) Deceitful Death [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Deceitful peace; a new look at the Soviet threat (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Deceitful Melody (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Quotation
Duc de La Rochefoucauld	How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	If Americans are to grow as a people, they need to think of Martha Stewart not as a conniving bitch but, rather, as a deceitful bastard.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George W. Bush	2001-2005	After generations of deceitful dictators and broken treaties and squandered lives, we dedicated ourselves to standards of human dignity shared by all, and to a system of security defended by all.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Deceitful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Deceitful" is used about 79 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	79	37,388

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "deceitful".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Dalmatia	N/A	Biblical	Deceitful lamps
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Language		Translations for "deceitful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bedrieglik (deceptive, delusive, fallacious). (various references)

Albanian		tradhtar (betrayer, disloyal, Judas, Quisling, rat, recreant, renegade, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turnback), mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued). (various references)

Arabic		‏كذاب (bluffer, false, fibber, lying, mendacious, untruthful), ‏محتال (bluff, fraudulent, hustler, rogue, trickster), ‏مضلل (deceptive, false, illusive, misguiding, misleading, perverting), ‏مخادع (artful, bluff, bluffer, crafty, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double dealing, double-tongued, face, false, fraudulent, hustler, illusive, illusory, indirect, insincere, misguiding, misleading, sly, trickish, tricky, underhand, wily), ‏ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deep, designing, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, scheming, sharper, slick, slim, sly, smart, subtle, trick, vulpine, wily), ‏مراوغ (devious, dodgy, elusive, evasive, shifting, shifty, wily), ‏نصاب (sharper, spotter), ‏خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, double dealing, fallacious, false, fool, illusive, illusory, insincere, misleading, rip off, trickish, tricky, wily). (various references)

Bulgarian		лъжлив (bogus, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), измамен (deceptive, done, double dealing, fallacious, put-up-on, screwed up, unreal). (various references)

Chinese		譎 , � (clamor, noise), 狡詐 (craft, cunning), 狡诈. (various references)

Czech		zrádný (false, guileful, perfidious, shifty, telltale, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous), podvodný (bogus, crooked, fraudulent, improper), lstivý (crafty, cunning, designing, leery, politic, subtle, tricky, underhand, wily), úskoèný (crafty, shifty, shuffling, snaky, tricky, underhand, wily). (various references)

Dutch		bedrieglýk (contrived, deceptive, delusive, fallacious, false, misleading). (various references)

Esperanto		trompa. (various references)

Farsi		فریب امیز (Deceptive, Shifty), پرنیرنگ . (various references)

Finnish		vilpillinen (dishonest, false, fraudulent), pettävä (deceptive, fallacious), petollinen (deceptive, delusive, false, fraudulent, treacherous), kavala (false, insidious, treacherous, underhand), epärehellinen (dishonest, false). (various references)

French		dissimulé, trompeur (deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory), pilleur, menteur, mensonger, fourbe. (various references)

German		betrügerisch (deceitfully, fraudulent, fraudulently, surreptitious). (various references)

Greek		απατηλόσ (catchy, colorable, deceptive, delusive, elusive, elusory, fallacious, fraudulent, hollow, illusive, illusory, specious, tricky), δόλιοσ (dishonest, fraudulent, guileful, lurking, sly, snaky, trappy, treacherous, two faced, underhand, underhanded, wily). (various references)

Hebrew		מתע�" (misleading), מרמ�" (deceitfulness, deception, duplicity, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence). (various references)

Hungarian		csaló (abuser, bilk, blackleg, bobber, cheat, colubrine, crook, double-dealer, fake, faker, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, gouge, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, jockey, juggler, leg, masquerader, picaroon, piker, rogue, roguish, rook, rooky, shark, sharper, skinner, snide, swindler, trickster), álnok (deceptive, deep, disingenuous, disloyal, double dealing, double faced, false-hearted, felon, hollow-hearted, perfidious, treacherous). (various references)

Indonesian		tipuan (mock, sham, swindle), palsu (bogus, deceptive, fake, pseudo), curang (dishonest, fraudulent), curam (abrupt, fraudulent, steep), culas (clumsy, indolent, lazy, plodding, slow). (various references)

Italian		perfido (malicious, perfidious, snaky, treasonable), insidioso (insidious), ingannevole (crafty, deceptive, delusive, dodgy, elusive, false, misleading, tricky), falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, spoof, tin, wrong). (various references)

Manx		sleetchagh (furtive, hang-dog, lurking, slimy, sneaking), kialgagh (calculated, calculating, circumventory, crafty, deceiving, deceptive, fallacious, fly, guileful, illusive, insidious, perfidious, seditious, treacherous, tricky, wily), cam (bent, crooked, deformed, intricate, knotty; cam, perverse, rakish angle, wry). (various references)

Norwegian		svikefull (fraudulent). (various references)

Papiamen		engañoso. (various references)

Pig Latin		eceitfulday.(various references)

Portuguese		traiçoeiro (base-minded, cattish, double meaning, insidious, slippery, slippy, snaky, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, vulpine), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, double decker, double faced, double-tongued, dummy, error, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchers, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), enganador (claptrap, crater, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, false alarm, illusory, illustrate, lying down, misleading, scam artist, shuffler, skin deep, specious). (various references)

Romanian		viclean (arch, artful, astute, cagey, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, downy, foxy, guileful, leery, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), incorect (bad, dishonest, false, foul, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, obliquitous, wrong, wrongful), iluzoriu (airy, apparent, elusory, illusive, illusory, vain), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), înşelãtor (ambidexter, cheat, colourable, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double-dealer, manipulator, mendacious, specious). (various references)

Russian		лживый (double-tongued, false, mendacious, sklent, two-faced, two-tongued, untruthful). (various references)

Scottish		slìom (sleek, smooth), foilleil (fraudulent, treacherous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obmanjiv. (various references)

Spanish		engañoso (deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, fallacious, false, guileful, misleading, treacherous, wrong), falaz (deceptive, delusive, fallacious). (various references)

Swedish		bedräglig (cheated, colorable, colourable, deceptive, delusive, delusory, elusive, fallacious, false, fraudulent, illusive, illusory, underhand). (various references)

Turkish		dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer), düzenbaz (bilker, crafty, cross, deceiver, designing, falsifier, gadgety, impostor, intriguer, intriguing, left handed, pettifogging, racketeer, rogue, roguish, serpentine, shammer, shyster, tartar, trickster, tricky), yalancı (fabricator, fabulist, fibber, liar, mendacious, prevaricator, pseudo-, quack, sham, simulator, taleteller, twister, twisty, untruthful), hilekâr (cheat, cheater, con, con man, crooked, cross, deceiver, double-tongued, faithless, foul, fraud, fraudulent, funk, gadgety, guileful, hard boiled, knavish, trickster, twister), hilebaz (blackleg, cardsharp, cardsharper, cheat, cheater, foul, fraud, fraudulent, gyp, juggler, rook, serpentine, sharper, shuffling, trickster), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), aldatici (deceptive, delusive, fallacious). (various references)

Ukranian		віроломний (faithless, guileful, perfidious, treacherous, trustless), обманний (fraudulent), обманливий (captious, catchy, deceptive, delusive, delusory, elusory, fallacious, misleading), облудний (affected, captious, counterfeit, fraudulent, illusive, put on). (various references)

Welsh		twyllodrus (false), ffals (false). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dolosa, dolose, dolosi, dolosis, dolositatem, doloso, dolosum, dolosus, fallacem, fallacia, fallax, fraudulenta, fraudulenti, fraudulentus, insidiose, insidiosus, lubrico, lubricum, mendace, mendacem, mendaces, mendacia, mendacis, mendacium, mendax, pseudoapostoli, pseudochristi, pseudoprophetes. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	geap. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	fallibilis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ei de aplhstoteroV ei mh epiqumei twn edesmatwn autou tauta gar ecetai zwhV yeudouV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Ne desideres de cibis eius in quo est panis mendacii
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Ne desire thou of the metis of hym, in the whiche is the bred of lesing.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
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Language	Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 3
Bulgarian	Не пожелавай вкусните му ястия, Защото те са примамливи гозби.
Cebuano	Ayaw pagtinguhaa ang iyang mga lamiang pagkaon; Sa nakita mo nga sila maoy malimbongon nga makaon.
Chinese	不可貪戀他的美食、 � 為是 �"� 人的食物。
Croatian	ne poželi slastica njegovih jer su jelo prijevarno.
Danish	Attrå ikke hans lækre Retter, thi det er svigefuld kost.
Dutch	Laat u niet gelusten zijner smakelijke spijzen, want het is een leugenachtig brood.
Finnish	Älä himoitse hänen herkkujansa, sillä ne ovat petollisia ruokia.
French	Ne convoite pas ses friandises: C`est un aliment trompeur.
German	Wünsche dir nichts von seinen feinen Speisen; denn es ist falsches Brot.
Haitian Creole	Pa pote lanvi sou bon ti manje l'ap ofri ou yo. Se ka yon pèlen li tann pou ou.
Hungarian	Ne kivánd az õ csemegéit; mert ezek hazug étkek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Jangan rakus akan makanan enak yang dihidangkannya, barangkali ia hendak menjebak engkau.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dan jangan ingin terlalu akan makanannya yang sedap, karena itulah hidangan penipu adanya.
Italian	Non desiderare le sue ghiottonerie, sono un cibo fallace.
Korean	그 진 찬 을 탐 하 지 말 라 그 것 은 간 사 하 게 � 푼 식 물 이 니 라
Maori	Kaua e hiahia ki ana mea reka: he kai tinihanga hoki era.
Modern Greek	μη επιθυμει τα εδεσματα αυτου· διοτι ταυτα ειναι τροφη δολιοτητος.
Norwegian	Vær ikke lysten efter hans fine retter, for det er mat som kan svike!
Portuguese	Não cobices os seus manjares gostosos, porque é comida enganadora.
Rumanian	Nu pofti mkncqrile lui alese, cqci sknt o hranq knwelqtoare.
Russian	оЕ � ТЕМШЭБКУС МБЛПНЩНЙ СУФЧБНЙ ЕЗП; ЬФП--П�'НБОЮЙЧБС � ЙЭБ.
Spanish	No codicies sus manjares delicados, porque es pan de engaño.
Swedish	Var ej lysten efter hans smakliga rätter, ty de äro en bedräglig kost.
Thai	อย่าปรารถนาของโอชะของท่าน เพราะมันเป็นอาหารที่หลอกลวง
Ukrainian	не жадай його ласощів, бо вони хліб обманливий!
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "deceitful": deceitfully, deceitfulness, deceitfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Deceitful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deceiptful, deceitfull, deceitiful, decietful, deciteful. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "deceitful" (pronounced dusē"tful)
4	-t f u l	artful, boastful, delightful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doubtful, eventful, fateful, fistful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, insightful, lustful, mistrustful, neglectful, regretful, resentful, respectful, restful, rightful, spiteful, tactful, tasteful, thoughtful, uneventful, ungrateful, wasteful, wistful, zestful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-l-t-u"
	-2 letters: clefted, deflect, ductile, fileted, leucite.
	-3 letters: ceiled, deceit, decile, defect, defile, delict, deltic, dilute, dulcet, eluted, felted, flited, fluted, fueled, futile, lifted, luetic, teledu.
	-4 letters: cited, cleft, clift, clued, culet, culti, cutie, deice, delft, deuce, edict, edile, educe, educt, elect, elide, elite, elude, elute, etude, felid, feted, fetid, feued, field, filed, filet, fleet, flied, flite, flued, fluid, flute, lucid, ludic, luted, telic, tilde, tiled, utile.
	-5 letters: cede, cedi, ceil, celt, cete, cite, clef, clit, clue, cued, cuif, cult, cute, deet, defi, deft, deil, dele, delf, deli, delt, dice, diel, diet, dite, duce, duci, duct, duel, duet, duit, edit, eide, etic, etui, feed, feel, feet, felt, fete, feud, fice, file, fled, flee, flic, flit, flue, fuci, fuel, iced, idle, leet, left, leud, lice, lied, lief, lieu, life, lift, lite, litu, luce, lude, lute, teed, teel, tele, tide, tied, tile, tule.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-l-t-u"
	+2 letters: deceitfully, uninflected.
	+3 letters: multifaceted.
	+4 letters: deceitfulness, disrespectful, unelectrified.
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