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deceitfulness

/dih-seet-fuhl/US // dɪˈsit fəl //UK // (dɪˈsiːtfʊl) //

诡诈,诡诈性,诡计多端,诡辩

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
    • : intended to deceive; misleading; fraudulent: a deceitful action.

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Examples

  • Even the more polished, informed, self-possessed Romney seems cursed with an Eddie Haskell air of insincerity and deceitfulness.

  • O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?

  • This they find too much trouble, and so deride the idea of being polite and call it deceitfulness.

  • "The silky, purring deceitfulness of a treacherous cat," interpolates Maud's outraged uncle.

  • He put salt on a bird's tail and learned his first lesson of the deceitfulness of the human heart.

  • All these are illustrations of Jesuss teaching about the deceitfulness of riches.