deceitful
英[d?'si?tf?l;-f(?)l]
美[d?'sitfl]
- adj. 欺騙的；欺詐的；謊言的；虛偽的
英英釋意
- 1. 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. 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