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Definition of deceitful

"deceitful" in the adjective sense

1. deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent

intended to deceive

"deceitful advertising"

"fallacious testimony"

"smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge

"a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

2. ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued

marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

"she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill

"a double-dealing double agent"

"a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for deceitful

Bloody and deceitful men dig their own graves. [ Proverb ]

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful. [ Churchill ]

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us agreeably through life. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? [ Bible ]

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. [ Walter Scott ]

Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. [ Bible ]

Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]

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deceitful in Scrabble®

The word deceitful is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters deceitful:

DECEITFUL
(144)
DECEITFUL
(144)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (4 words)

deflect, ductile, fileted, leucite

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word deceitful

DECEITFUL
(144)
DECEITFUL
(144)
DECEITFUL
(96)
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(96)
DECEITFUL
(64)
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(19)
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(18)
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(18)
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(17)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In deceitful

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(144)
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deceitful in Words With Friends™

The word deceitful is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters deceitful:

DECEITFUL
(198)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (4 words)

deflect, ductile, fileted, leucite

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word deceitful

DECEITFUL
(198)
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(120)
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(90)
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(20)
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(20)
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(19)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In deceitful

DECEITFUL
(198)
DECEITFUL
(120)
DECEITFUL
(120)
DEFLECT
(116 = 81 + 35)
DEFLECT
(116 = 81 + 35)
DUCTILE
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Words containing the sequence deceitful

Words that start with deceitful (3 words)

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Words with deceitful in them (1 word)

deceitful

Words that end with deceitful (2 words)

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Word Growth involving deceitful

Shorter words in deceitful

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Longer words containing deceitful

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