Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.
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Examples for "deceitful "
Examples for "deceitful "
1 He is in the fierce Camp: he is in the deceitful Court.
2 This is not only wrong in content and process, but again deceitful .
3 He and others in a similar deceitful condition are influencing the Emperor.
4 Not after she'd led him to believe her motives were so deceitful .
5 They imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
1 There are plenty of shady doctors and duplicitous friends and disloyal team-mates.
2 It's a fitting preoccupation given the animalistic and duplicitous drama that follows.
3 Must we conduct ourselves with the duplicitous politenesses of our English neighbors?
4 But he was also a duplicitous man, a chronic adulterer, ruthlessly ambitious.
5 In consequence, our negotiations over the terms of these Bills were strangely duplicitous .
1 He's trained himself to be ambidextrous and learned to control his reflexes.
2 Tet the wretched Sardian paid a long price for his ambidextrous hexameter.
3 Groth is ambidextrous , able to change hands when the situation requires.
4 Or just this graffiti wisdom: I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous .
5 But neither is officially ambidextrous -rather, they have what is called cross-dominance
1 Also, there is much in his career of political connivance, double - dealing , assassination.
2 She was accused of double - dealing , of supporting the Tories rather than Labour.
3 In her great, unclouded eyes he had found no lurking-place for double - dealing .
4 We wish to do nothing darkly; frank republicans, we acknowledge no double-dealing .
5 Bob isn't the kind to get onto treachery or double - dealing very quick.
1 The Peigan warriors are double - tongued ; they know that they have hid the Pale-face prisoners.
2 The Kansas-Nebraska act was a double - tongued statute, and the Cincinnati platform a Janus-faced banner.
3 Margaret said she thought she was weeping because they were so double - tongued with her.
4 It was a contest in which Leicester revelled-simplicityand single-mindedness against the multifarious and double-tongued .
5 Looks like a standard Mourning Rose double - tongued turnbolt.
1 A friend is Janus-faced ; he looks to the past and the future.
2 Mask after mask falls off, and it is terrible to see Janus-faced actuality.
3 Thus, chaperones may well represent a Janus - faced approach against tumors.
4 For this horned figure is not one man but two: the statue is Janus - faced .
5 Politics is in a sense Janus - faced , concerned with both the time-bound struggle for power and the sort of utopian imagination lauded by Robert Grant.
1 The Storri vanity owned an appetite for two - faced triumphs of that feather.
2 Unjust and two - faced , but what else can you expect from an esthete?
3 Germany, as I have pointed out, has been conducting a two - faced propaganda.
4 The worst of them had been a two - faced lawyer, van der Donck.
5 Drapier: Almost all politicians are two - faced in what we say about the Garda.
1 Obviously it was not lack of skill that produced the double - faced phrases.
2 The great improvement originated with the introduction of 'the double - faced sluice-cock.'
3 Pedro was dull, honorable, and frank; Juan was hawk-eyed and double - faced .
4 A double - faced T-shirt in coated grey fabric and matching trousers at Matthew Miller.
5 He is ruthless and pitiless, but I do not think he is double - faced .
6 Notwithstanding, they are often cheated and ill-used by these double - faced dealers.
7 A butterfly print double - faced T-shirt over red, silky trousers at E.Tautz.
8 A thick pad of felt or double - faced cotton flannel should go under the tablecloth.
9 Hideous and double - faced effrontery, which conceals no one knows what monstrosities beneath its cloak.
10 He's a double - faced swab, and a thundering hypocrite as well.
11 How many unsuspicious girls have these double - faced mothers deluded so?
12 But you know he was a double - faced giant; so perhaps he snored louder on purpose.
13 I have become the accomplice of this double - faced villain.
14 We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double - faced morality.
15 He'll find you out for the double - faced cur that you are-andafter that, the fireworks.
16 If the natural world is so double - faced and unhomelike, what world, what thing is real?
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