behaving in a dishonest way by telling lies and making people believe things that are not true:
The government were accused of being hypocritical and deceitful.
deceitfully adverb
deceitfulness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for deceitful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is deceitful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, deceitful is tagged as adjective.
Does deceitful appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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