adj
(obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
adj
Spurious; due to adulteration.
adj
(by extension) Skilful at using dishonest or unfair means to achieve a purpose; crafty, cunning.
adj
Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
adj
(informal) characteristic of deceit and treachery
n
The behaviour of a busybody; interfering, meddling.
adj
Of a devious, usually stealthy, manner or practice.
adj
Corrupt and hardhanded, authoritarian, with patronage and nepotism; grandiose.
adj
Engaging in chicanery.
adj
evading or overcoming some protective measure.
adj
That connives; conspiratorial.
n
(obsolete) Deception, dissimulation.
adj
Alternative form of covinous [(law) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.]
adj
(law) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.
adj
Designed or executed to deceive or mislead.
adj
Deceitful, duplicitous.
adj
treacherous; given to backstabbing
n
Obsolete spelling of deceit [An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.]
adj
Obsolete form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
adj
Obsolete form of deceitful. [Deliberately misleading or cheating.]
adj
Deliberately misleading or cheating.
adj
(obsolete) Vulnerable to deception.
adj
Employing or relating to deception; deceptive.
adj
(obsolete) Tending to deceive.
adj
Likely or attempting to deceive.
n
exaggerated advertising that attempts to deceive
n
(rare) Something that deceives.
n
(rare, nonstandard outside religion) A deceiver (weaver of deceptions).
adj
Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
adj
(proscribed) Disingenuous.
n
Synonym of disingenuousness
n
The action of the verb dissemble
adv
So as to dissemble or deceive; with dissimulation.
n
Hiding one's feelings or intentions.
adj
(rare, historical, law) Deceitful, with hidden malice.
n
(rare) Deceitfulness, hidden malice.
adj
False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
adj
Having a deceitful countenance.
adj
deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous
adj
Alternative spelling of double-dealing [(of a person) Cheating, dishonest; treacherous.]
adj
Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
adv
(obsolete) with duplicity
n
(Zoroastrianism) Deceit, falsehood, lie.
adj
duplicitous; two-faced; deceitful
n
duplicity; two-faced deception
adj
Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
n
Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
n
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
n
(rare) The state of being fake; fakeness.
n
The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
adj
deceitful, duplicitous, beguiling
n
(idiomatic) The characteristic of deceptiveness; duplicity; untruthfulness.
adj
Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; fraudulent.
adj
Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
n
Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
adj
Characterised or marked by guile or deceit; deceitful.
adj
Amateurish; characterized by overacting.
adj
insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
adj
Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
adj
Not genuinely meaning what has been expressed; not sincere; artificial.
n
(figuratively) A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
adj
double-faced; deceitful
adj
(archaic, rare) Worthy of being japed, mockable.
adj
Misconstruction of conniving [That connives; conspiratorial.]
adj
Insincere or malicious.
adj
Alternative form of Machiavellian [Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics or in advancing one's career.]
n
A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
adj
prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright
n
(obsolete, rare) The action of telling lies in an artful way
adj
Alternative spelling of nosy [Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle.]
adj
Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
n
pilpul; sophistry; hair-splitting
n
One who has difficulty hiding lies.
adj
Abounding with plots; scheming.
adj
Tending to prevaricate.
adj
Full of schemes or plans.
adj
Scheming; cunning; devious.
adj
(derogatory) Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.
n
Synonym of self-deception
n
The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.
adj
Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
adj
Sneaky, underhanded; insincere.
n
Deceptive logic; sophistry.
adj
Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
adj
Having the characteristic of returning bad for bad.
adj
(obsolete, rare) slanderous
adj
Deceitful; inclined to betray.
adj
Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
adj
adept at using deception
adj
(obsolete) Two-faced; deceitful.
adj
Deceitful, duplicitous.
adj
(by extension) Deceitful; lying; two-faced.
adj
Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
n
Devious people, collectively.
adj
(rare) Dishonest, deceptive, misleading.
adj
Likely to use physical force.
adj
Devious; cunning; misleading; sneaky.
adj
Full of wiles; deceitful.
n
deceitful cleverness or shrewdness
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