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deceitful
Synonyms and Antonyms of deceitful
- charged the store owner with such deceitful practices as inflating the list prices for items only so he could put them on sale at drastically reduced prices
- the deceitful salesman neglected to mention some important information about the used car
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily
bewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzling
ambidextrous, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful
bogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, jive [slang], phony (also phoney), sham, spurious
insidious, perfidious, treacherous
ambiguous, circuitous, equivocal, evasive
artificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced
Synonym Discussion of deceitful
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- a swindle usually involves two dishonest people
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- the secret affairs of a deceitful spouse
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- mendacious tales of adventure
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- an untruthful account of their actions
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