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Recent Examples of deceitfully
To help fill their coffers even more, the lobbyists deceitfully expanded the definition of those notch years to include everyone born through 1926.
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Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026
But through no fault of the actress, the film starts to sag as Erika morphs from intoxicating vixen to deceitfully manipulative monster.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
Many homeowners consider white paint a safe choice, but settling on the right tone for your space is deceitfully tricky.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2026
Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026
But through no fault of the actress, the film starts to sag as Erika morphs from intoxicating vixen to deceitfully manipulative monster.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
Many homeowners consider white paint a safe choice, but settling on the right tone for your space is deceitfully tricky.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceitfully
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Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Tesla is suing California's Department of Motor Vehicles to reverse a ruling that found the automaker violated the law by falsely promoting its cars' self-driving capabilities.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
23 Feb. 2026
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Federal and state regulators have accused the company of falsely advertising to consumers that its cars are capable of fully driving themselves.—
Keith Laing,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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Additional uses of geolocation data, the providers say, include proving a bettor is dishonestly disputing credit card charges, revealing sign-up bonus abuse or showing that someone is illegally making proxy wagers across state lines.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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As naive as that may sound in a world where so many self-evident rights and wrongs are being routinely, dishonestly evaluated and reevaluated, the series elevates simple truths in ways that are downright inspirational.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Aug. 2025
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The game is deceptively simple.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
19 Feb. 2026
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There are comparisons to be made in the sheer fluidity of the storytelling with the deceptively breezy films of the great French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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Not Carolyn artfully dodging the drug allegations!—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
19 Feb. 2026
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Such stories enrich the book, and Jacob artfully captures the chaos at the Reader since it was sold to an outfit called Creative Loafing in 2007.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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His presence is so recessive that the resulting footage, however cannily composed, looks, for the most part, like it was made by an unattended surveillance camera.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2026
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The special’s opening half-hour is a series of meaningful opening salvos like this, cannily shoehorned into catch-up anecdotes, each of them laying the groundwork for where Nanjiani ultimately wants the hour to land without tipping his hand in one direction or another.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Deceitfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceitfully. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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