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Synonyms for deceitful
adj dishonest, insincere- artful
- deceptive
- disingenuous
- duplicitous
- false
- fraudulent
- hypocritical
- misleading
- underhanded
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- astucious
- astute
- beguiling
- clandestine
- counterfeit
- crafty
- cunning
- deceiving
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- double-dealing
- fallacious
- feline
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- impostrous
- indirect
- insidious
- knavish
- lying
- mendacious
- rascal
- roguish
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- wily
Antonyms for deceitful
- actual
- authentic
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- honest
- ingenuous
- just
- naive
- open
- real
- reliable
- sincere
- truthful
- upright
- valid
- faithful
- loyal
- trustworthy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
More words related to deceitful
Machiavellian
adjective. scheming
ambidextrous
adjective. insincere
crafty
adjective. clever, scheming
crooked
adjective. evil, corrupt
deceptive
adjective. dishonest
- ambiguous
- astucious
- beguiling
- bum
- catchy
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- fake
- fallacious
- false
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- illusory
- imposturous
- indirect
- insidious
- lying
- misleading
- mock
- oblique
- off
- phony
- plausible
- rascal
- roguish
- scheming
- seeming
- serpentine
- shifty
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- unreliable
- wily
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.