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Example sentences for "deceitful"

Lexicographically close words:
deceave; deceaved; decedent; deceipt; deceit; deceitfull; deceitfully; deceitfulness; deceits; deceiue
  1. I know thee for a deceitful knave: And art thou gotten so bonfacion[150] and brave?

  2. Therefore the next piece of work that thou dost make, Let me see how deceitful thou wilt do it for my sake.

  3. The deceitful and dangerous experiment of the criminal question, as it is emphatically styled, was admitted, rather than approved, in the jurisprudence of the Romans.

  4. The ruin of Valens was precipitated by the deceitful arts of Fritigern, and the prudent admonitions of the emperor of the West.

  5. It cost us some trouble and a great deal of money to bring the sturdy Cornishman into this deceitful part; and perhaps he never would have consented but for his obligation to me, and the wrongs (as he said) of his daughter.

  6. A very charming and intelligent, but deceitful man, an amoral person whose heredity was strongly tainted with mental disease, had strong sexual instincts partly inverted.

  7. When he was sane he spent his time in deceitful occupations and speculation and never worked honestly to earn his living.

  8. He produced such an impression on this young girl that she became hypnotized and fell in love with the old roué She lost all conscience, became deceitful and untruthful by suggestion, and compromised herself and her family.

  9. It were possible; for he has a cold and deceitful heart, and he would be capable of such treachery.

  10. The handsome, fascinating, deceitful colonel was amply indemnified for all the hearts he had broken, and those broken hearts fully avenged by the tedium of his home life.

  11. It was to save her life, then, that the wretched and deceitful woman had lied to him, her outraged lover.

  12. You know how deceitful she is and what unkind things she said about me.

  13. They were all talking at once, but I heard the horrid, sharp-faced, dark girl say that someone was stingy and deceitful and a lot of other unpleasant things.

  14. I don't believe she could do anything deceitful or horrid," she reflected stoutly.

  15. They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue.

  16. He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

  17. And this too not for the contracted and deceitful space of a single year, but for some reasonable term.

  18. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

  19. Yes, thou art the only ill that women bless, doubtless through gratitude for the good things thou dispensest to them, O deceitful headache!

  20. But nature had provided against this by giving her a natural counterpoise, which rendered needless the deceitful adjunct of a bustle; in Rose Cormon everything was genuine.

  21. Jupiter, in pursuance of the request of Thetis, sends a deceitful vision to Agamemnon, persuading him to lead the army to battle in order to make the Greeks sensible of their want of Achilles.

  22. To whom thus Juno with deceitful speech: "What words, dread son of Saturn, dost thou speak?

  23. It was characterized by a mild and deceitful onset, like a cold.

  24. This pretended Gift of Immersibility attending Witches, is a most fallible deceitful thing; for many a Witch has sunk under the Water.

  25. The Devil will make a deceitful and unfaithful use of the Scriptures to make his Temptations forceable.

  26. When will Christians learn, in their intercourse with heathens and savages, to abstain from such falsehood and deceitful dealing?

  27. If I find you deceitful and suspicious I shall certainly entertain no regard for you.

  28. In him we have the most inveterate and deceitful foe we have ever known.

  29. No, my lord, I would not be cheated of my happiness by so deceitful a phantom.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deceitful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; ambidextrous; arch; artful; astute; calculating; canny; chiseling; clever; crafty; crooked; cunning; cute; deceitful; deceptive; deep; designing; devious; diplomatic; dirty; dishonest; disingenuous; disloyal; double; evasive; faithless; false; feline; forsworn; foxy; fraudulent; furtive; guileful; hollow; hypocritical; indirect; ingenious; insidious; insincere; inventive; knavish; knowing; lying; mendacious; misleading; oblique; pawky; perfidious; perjured; phoney; plausible; politic; ready; resourceful; rotten; scheming; serpentine; sharp; shifty; shrewd; slick; slippery; sly; smooth; snaky; sneaky; sophistical; spurious; stealthy; strategic; subtile; subtle; supple; surreptitious; tactical; traitorous; treacherous; tricky; uncandid; underhand; underhanded; unscrupulous; untrue; untruthful; vulpine; wary; wily


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    deceitful phantom; deceitful tongue