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109 words match “DECEIT”

Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.

To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully. Some cogging,cozening slave. Shak.

plied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices. You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. Wharton.

CUNNING a. 2 definitions

Crafty; sly; artful; designid; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South.

DAEDAL; DAEDALIAN a.

Crafty; deceitful. [R.] Keats.

To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak.

DECEIVABLE a. 2 definitions

Fitted to deceive; deceitful. [Obs.] The fraud of deceivable traditions. Milton.

To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld. We have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and…

A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere. With a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2.

DOUBLE DEALER n.

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

DOUBLE DEALING n.

False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing. Shak.

Having a deceitful look. [R.] "Deceitful meanings is double- eyed." Spenser.

DOUBLE-FACED a.

Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous. Milton.

DOUBLE-HANDED a.

Deceitful; deceptive. Glanvill.

DOUBLE-TONGUE n.

Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.

DOUBLE-TONGUED a.

Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii. 8.

DOUBLEHEARTED a.

Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.

Deceitfully. "A man that deals doubly." Huloet.