deceitful meaning and definition

DECEITFUL adjective

Definition of 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"
   • synonyms: 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
   • synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced