Antonyms for deceitful


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dih-seet-fuhl
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsit fəl


Definition of deceitful

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from deceit + -ful. Related: Deceitfully; deceitfulness.
  • adj dishonest, insincere
Example sentences :
  • Yet, I warn you, appearances are deceitful; he is always drunker than he looks.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • His animal nature was predominant, and this led him to be deceitful.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • The world is a miserable, hollow, deceitful shell of vanity and hypocrisy.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • This kind of political economy can only be qualified as false and deceitful.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • But he had been deceitful—and to Martha Phipps, of all people.
  • Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • In fact he wrote that he thought it all wrong, deceitful, bordering on the dishonest.
  • Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • To do this now that I knew I loved him would be deceitful, mean, almost treacherous.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
  • Mist is deceitful, the dead luminosity of the fog is irritating.
  • Extract from : « Tales Of Hearsay » by Joseph Conrad
  • How true the words of Solomon: “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain!”
  • Extract from : « A Book of Burlesques » by H. L. Mencken
  • I know what men are; how deceitful in their words; how unkind in their judgments.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan

Synonyms for deceitful

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