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deceitfully Definition


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deceit
noun
    1. An act of deceiving or misleading.
    2. Dishonesty; deceitfulness; willingness to deceive.
      Thesaurus: deception, misrepresentation, artifice, fraud, fraudulence, fakery, sham, trickery, underhandedness, duplicity, cunning, cheating; Antonym: honesty, openness.
Derivative: deceitful
adj
    Willing to deceive; dishonest
      Thesaurus: deceptive, treacherous, dishonest, insincere, underhand, two-faced, sneaky, tricky, crafty, designing, collusive, duplicitous, fallacious; Antonym: honest, open, trustworthy.
Derivative: deceitfully
adverb
    Etymology: 14c: French deceite.



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