Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a deceitful manner; fraudulently; with deceit; in a manner or with a view to deceive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With intent to deceive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in a
deceitful manner - adverb with the
intention todeceive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a corrupt and deceitful manner
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Examples
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The word we want is not the legalistic "paedophilia", which in any case deceitfully translates as "fondness for children".
The Guardian World News Martin Amis 2009
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And he said this of himself before also, that he did not live after the outward appearance, nor preach "handling the word deceitfully (ibid.) and corrupting it.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Pray what right may you have to stew me in a saucepan up on your roof, and to send me flavors of myself done up nicely into little packages labelled deceitfully "love"?
Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Robert Herrick 1903
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Renounce therefore the hidden things of dishonesty, walk not in craftiness, nor handle God's word deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commend yourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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And suddenly he notices the workman at a distance standing there and smiling deceitfully, that is, not deceitfully though, I’m wrong there, what is it ...
A Raw Youth 2003
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The WSDOT campaign to deceitfully manipulate opinion in support of the malevolently engineered deep-bore tunnel has harmed many people.
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The scam that made him a far right hero was just as deceitfully seedy.
Robert J. Elisberg: Apparently, It's Hard Out Here for This Pimp, too Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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In March 2010, when the president said "Faced with an extended hand, Iran's leaders have shown only a clenched fist," the ayatollah accused him of deceitfully offering a "metal hand inside a velvet glove."
It's Time to Bypass Iran's 'Supreme Leader' Mehdi Khalaji 2012
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Pawlenty is just what we no longer need in campaigns for national office: a socially conservative Bush clone who is deceitfully trying to portray himself as a moderate centrist.
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Thus did he deceitfully save himself the indignity of being put out, and rob us of the satisfaction of putting him out, but he came, and he came often, each time getting away with an able-bodied man's share of plunder.
The Golden Poppy 2010
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