behaving in a dishonest way by telling lies and making people believe things that are not true synonym dishonest The government was accused of being hypocritical and deceitful.
deceive verbdeceit noundeceitful adjectivedeception noundeceptive adjective
NAmE//dɪˈsitfəli//
adverb noun [uncountable]See deceitful in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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