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How to use deceitful in a sentence

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In a world full of liars, cheaters and the deceitful, who has always given me honesty?
He is full of charm when he gets his way, full of menace when he does not, unscrupulous, cunning and deceitful.
It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
Now we know our rights, and protect ourselves from scam attorneys and deceitful immigration officers.
It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful.
The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
Those raised in urban Western understanding of the psychology of the animal kingdom tend to view the fox as a cunning, sly, deceitful animal.
Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver.
The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly.
In other words, a sneaky, crafty, deceitful person would take on the form of a snake.
Yet if this most deceitful of the 20th century's killers is calculating on forgiveness, he may be deceiving himself.
The aristocracy tend to be cowardly and deceitful while the lowborn are noble savages.
What role did he and the intelligence boffins play in compiling the deceitful dossiers last September and February?
If financial gain is the only justification for upcoding or downcoding, then it is deceitful.
As the truth came out, the Government made itself look incompetent, deceitful and untrustworthy.
It really is such a shame that society has turned us into such deceitful people.
Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful.
Of course I don't think that the purveyors of ID really think this way, it's just a deceitful and hypocritical marketing strategy.
He was an unprincipled, deceitful, arrogant young man, dangerous to those around him and too powerful for his own good.
You think he is deceitful because you feel that you were led to believe that he, too, might fall in love.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Arrowroot, cornflour, and most of those prepared foods are more deceitful than the washed flesh of the French academicians.
The Losengour or pleasant flatterer was too lightly believed, and honied words made more harmful the deceitful error.
This kind of political economy can only be qualified as false and deceitful.
Do not be afraid to discover how double-minded and deceitful your heart is.
Perhaps the erl-king has an unlimited supply of those deceitful daughters of his!
The comfort of the Epicureans is the same practical philosophy the Stoics teach, only trickier, more deceitful.
Bahaism, whose deceitful leader is a sun-worshipper, has hundreds of thousands of followers in the English speaking world.
In fact he wrote that he thought it all wrong, deceitful, bordering on the dishonest.
The conceit deceitful in the painting, is the imagination that means more than its says.
His animal nature was predominant, and this led him to be deceitful.
Though technically telling a white lie is deceitful, this approach is personal and respectful, Keller explains.
First, she steadfastly maintained that brunettes and all the tribe of dark-eyed humans were deceitful.
I never thought you deceitful, Sidney, whatever other faults you might have had.
Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act.
The world is a miserable, hollow, deceitful shell of vanity and hypocrisy.
It is deceitful, fraudulent, inherently unworthy of trust and belief.
If the doctor is aware the cross-examiner has this capacity, he or she is less inclined to be deceitful.
These are the deceitful contrivances of oligarchical legislators.
She cannot accuse me of showing one bit of deceitful softness.
All memory of the past, all thought of the future, all sense of the falseness and hopelessness of my own position, lay hushed within me into deceitful rest.
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