behaving in a dishonest way by telling lies and making people believe things that are not true synonym dishonest The government was accused of being hypocritical and deceitful.
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NAmE//dɪˈsitfəli//
adverb noun [uncountable]See deceitful in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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