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(adj)
Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
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(of a person) Cheating, dishonest; treacherous.
double-faced; deceitful
Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
(idiomatic) Saying one thing to one person and something different to another; double talking; deceitful in speech.
Deceptive or misleading.
Not honest; shoddy.
Without honor, or causing dishonor.
Having equal or comparable ability in both hands; in particular, able to write well with both hands.
Deceitful, duplicitous
Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
Likely or attempting to deceive.
(n)
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
Having been tricked or deceived.
An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
Evasion of the truth.
Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
(by extension) Dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner.
Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
Dishonest; deceitful.
Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
That connives; conspiratorial.
Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
Not ingenuous; not frank or open.
British standard spelling of dishonorable.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
(informal, of clothing or a person) Displaying breasts prominently.
Not fair.
False; not true.
Obsolete form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
deceptive
Archaic form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
(archaic) deceptive
Employing or relating to deception; deceptive.
Involving both hands.
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
(rare) Dishonest, deceptive, misleading.
(informal) Involving cheating; fraudulent.
Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
(nonstandard, malapropism) Alternative form of misleading. [Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.]
Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
Devious; passive-aggressive.
Hard to deal with, complicated.
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Unsound and unreliable.
(now rare) Deceptive; using trickery.
A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
Using tricks or trickery.
(proscribed) Disingenuous.
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
(rare, historical, law) Deceitful, with hidden malice.
A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
That can be misled.
Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.
(rare) Untruthful; lying.
Unreliable; dangerous.
Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
Synonym of misleading.
(law, US) In U.S. trademark law, misdescriptive in a way that is likely to deceive consumers in a way that influences the decision to purchase.
Providing incorrect information; misleading.
Tending to manipulate.
(archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
Without scruples; immoral.
(idiomatic) Mischievous and playful.
(informal) characteristic of deceit and treachery
Low or reduced in price.
The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.
A non-genuine article; a fake.
An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies.
Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
Like a trickster; cunning; mischievous.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
Tending to prevaricate.
(rare) Involving skulduggery; tricky, underhand.
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Deceit; treachery.
Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.
Having false ideas; misleading.
Secret or underhand; not openly avowed.
Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.
(dated) Able to be deceived.
Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
Falsely assembled; faked.
Employing or relating to misdirection.
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Under an illusion; deceived.
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.