How To Use Deceitful In A Sentence
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His manner was sly and deceitful.
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We wouldn't lie to you about the history of "perfidious" -- even though the word itself suggests deceitfulness.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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Rome created the word that denotes this marvellous and monstrous phenomenon, of history, the enormous city, the deceitful source of life and death -- _urbs_ -- _the city_.
Characters and events of Roman History
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We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some examples of words ending in -ful that have no forms in -less are awful, bashful and deceitful.
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And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver.
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He was deceitful, not telling his parents, for instance, that he got honey from the carcass of a lion.
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The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
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It encouraged me to live deceitfully; I enjoyed living a lie.
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The Dion tax “shift” and “revenue neutral” misnomer is now being exposed for every deceitful aspect.
2008 August 02 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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But the more you look into his claims, the more they seem deceitful.
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I must weave a veil of dazzling falsehood to hide my grief from vulgar eyes, smoothe my brow, and paint my lips in deceitful smiles -- even in solitude I dare not think how lost I am, lest I become insane and rave.
I.9
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I forced a smile, a lying, deceitful, false smile, as if that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.
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Awww ... can't handle it now that MSNBC is outfoxing Fox? the network had used "deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured story line is utterly misleading and irresponsible.
White House step up criticism of NBC
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Now those costs of training, the costs of recruitment, the costs of advertising, may be visited upon employees who deceitfully lie in their c.vs.
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Hardly deserving of 'the most trusted man in America' moniker either; history has shown that he was frightfully deceitful.
Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch
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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
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What role did he and the intelligence boffins play in compiling the deceitful dossiers last September and February?
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I just can't stand the man's style, the way he swaggers and struts and smirks and the way he looks sly and deceitful and the way Americans can't see it.
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For the first days of Lent, and perhaps for the entire period, devout Buddhists will abstain from intoxicants, certain foods, harsh language, deceitful deeds, and make a concentrated effort not to harm any living creature.
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It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
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His lawyer argued that his client had not acted deceitfully .
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Many young men are as obstinate, and as curious in their choice, as tyrannically proud, insulting, deceitful, false-hearted, as irrefragable and peevish on the other side; Narcissus-like,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband.
The Sun
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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
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Many are restless, depressed, and encumbered with the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches.
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He is deceitful and has lied to you about something vital.
The Sun
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No one can admire a deceitful boy.
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How long must the majority of the Scottish people continue to elect such deceitful scoundrels and charlatans who masquerade as champions of the working class in our country?
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To play fast and loose now means to behave in a deceitful or irresponsible manner. shell game This old gambling game (earlier known as thimblerig), in which the operator openly places a pea under one of three walnut shells, then rapidly shifts the shells around and challenges a sucker to bet on the location of the pea, has given its name to any kind of chicanery or subterfuge.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband.
The Sun
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Beginning 'There is is no longer any Temple of the Sun' there is a disturbing resonance with the recognition by both Lettrists and Situationists that the 33rd degree Masonry embodied the final syllable of the secret word JAHBULON as a reference to the Biblical city of On - more recently Heliopolis - refined by ANONYMOUS to the deceitful (cunning) Albertopolis - a name which covertly draws in the European Monarchical cabbala linking the Kaiser to Ra, the sun-God, rededicated to Osiris, God of the Dead.
Brit Lit Blogs
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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
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In a world full of liars, cheaters and the deceitful, who has always given me honesty?
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And then it was that we told the "innocent child" (that's what we call the deceitful cat) everything.
A Young Girl's Diary
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In each scene she has just the right look, the right slink in her walk and deceitful glint in her eye.
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Parents of troublesome youths may not be surprised that the curve peaks at the age of 12 when almost all of them will be deceitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of a sudden, what I thought was a relatively healthy and honest relationship turns out to be a run-of-the-mill deceitful one, in which I am the cuckold.
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On the contrary, she was going to pull him up into it beside her, and they would sit comfortably together, suffused in light, and laugh at how much afraid of him she used to be in Hampstead, and at how deceitful her afraidness had made her.
The Enchanted April
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Now those costs of training, the costs of recruitment, the costs of advertising, may be visited upon employees who deceitfully lie in their CVs.
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These deceitful tactics are plunging mid- and low-income individuals and their families into deeper and deeper debt causing all sorts of unspeakable social vices.
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Moore is entitled to editorialise as much as he likes … but to dress it up as “fact” or “documentary” is simply deceitful and he gets away with it because he plays to the convictions of the huge Liberal lobby in Hollywood.
The Gover Boils Michael Moore at Centigrade 7-7
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As the truth came out, the Government made itself look incompetent, deceitful and untrustworthy.
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All this and yet no one had the nerve to stand up and publicly ask the deceitful politician how he squared his public policy positions with his private life?
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This was drunk in a kind of cubby-hole off the night nursery, the three colonials having failed to fraternise with the posse of English servants who had been taken over with the house: a set of prim, starched pokers these, ran the verdict; and deceitful, too, with their “sirs” and “madams” to your face, and all the sneery backbiting that went on below-stairs.
The Way Home
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In Jdt 9: 10 and again in 9: 13, she petitions God for “deceitful words” that will wound those who have planned cruelties against the Jerusalem Temple and their homeland.
Judith: Apocrypha.
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What all this shows is that minimum effort, in the form of symbolic gestures alone, will not give firms enduring environmental credibility; instead, it lays them open to accusations of deceitfulness.
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The counselor to the president's accusing the network of what it calls deceitful editing, twisting the president's words.
CNN Transcript May 20, 2008
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'Our hearts are so deceitful in the matter of repentance, 'says Jeremy Taylor,' that the masters of the spiritual life are fain to invent suppletory arts and stratagems to secure the duty. '
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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That Deputy Dawg-looking, dirty, deceitful dreg of the earth deserved to be cursed out, ghetto-style.
Pure Paradise
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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.
DNC paints Pawlenty as liar
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It did not necessarily mean that any of the witnesses were being deliberately deceitful and dishonest.
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How can anyone trust David 'charlatan' Cameron and nick 'deceitful' Clegg again after they have systematically lied and pulled the wool over peoples eyes over the catastrophic and idealogical driven cuts that will stymy any hope if economic recovery and will hurt peoples living standards harder than at any time in Britain's history.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
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I forced a smile, a lying, deceitful, false smile, as if that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.
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After that I was brought from these long and doubtfull thoughts and phantasticall imaginations, and remembring all those maruellous diuine shapes and bodies which I had personally seene with mine eies, I then knew that they were not deceitfull shadowes, nor magicall illusions, but that I had not rightly conceiued of them.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
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I believe that those who went on the rampage were essentially deceitful, avaricious, and prone to anger, hate, and violence.
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So long as they don't act dishonestly or deceitfully, and so long as they don't violate some specific law, people living in our society are still free to conduct their affairs any which way they please.
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But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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A perpetrator often is deceitful and manipulative.
Christianity Today
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When only 40,000 people showed up for the anti-gun Million-Mom March a few years ago, the mainstream media deceitfully reported an estimated attendance of 750,000.
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She'd obviously met a bad bunch, for McCabe is immoral, deceitful and sly.
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This is deceitful and wrong - not to mention unnecessary.
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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They claim to expose actual or potential criminal behavior as well as deceitfulness, lack of self-control, violence proneness, and sociopathic tendencies.
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Dr. Jean-Luc Urbain, president of the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine, called AECL's communications strategy "deceitful" and said he was unsure if Canadian hospitals would be able to cope if the NRU is, in fact, off-line until the end of the year.
Progressive Bloggers
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Obviously, business risk is inherent in investing and we can't protect against it, but we can protect against risks of dishonesty and deceitful conduct.
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smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice
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Yet if this most deceitful of the 20th century's killers is calculating on forgiveness, he may be deceiving himself.
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It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful.
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Now we know our rights, and protect ourselves from scam attorneys and deceitful immigration officers.
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He is full of charm when he gets his way, full of menace when he does not, unscrupulous, cunning and deceitful.
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From his appearance, he does seem a deceitful man.
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We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was not the mythical, moral (but in reality often cruelly repressive and deceitful) 1950s but rather the supposedly lamentable late 1960s that this film was concerned with.
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Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
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It is often vindictive, lying, erroneous, deceitful, baseless, and devoid of any fact.
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We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office.
Times, Sunday Times
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But anti-noise protesters said the proposal was ‘deceitful’, claiming it would simply allow more planes to use Heathrow.
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The deceitfulness, that is, the depth of wickedness, and the abominableness, past all words, of thine own heart.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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Hospital records show she continued to be vain and deceitful, having clothes and make-up smuggled in.
The Sun
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GLOSS: par] when; feste] fastened; trauel] toil; louyng] object of love, beloved; sloken] quench; bote] remedy; settel] seat; lyft] lifted; hee] high; sle] deceitful?
Love is Life
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How could he have forgotten how sly and deceitful Viya was?
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And while it's hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative, I remember Ben Franklin's admonition that our critics are our friends, for they do show us our faults.
Statement By The President
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This killing machine fabricated of cunning deceitful words of legally piggily on corporate parchment ...
LewRockwell.com
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The forces of good are deceitful, proud and capricious; evil is largely unrepentant, self-pitying and, yet, absolved.
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The potential for dishonourable companies to act in this deceitful and dishonest manner will be given oxygen and allowed to profit by using the method blueprinted in this matter.
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He said the jurors should only consider the defendant's lies and deceitful behaviour as evidence against him if they were sure they were the actions of a man trying to cover up murder.
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Being deliberately deceitful about the Government's policies has become something of a habit for the Labour party.
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The collaborators can be as treacherous and deceitful as any of the collaborators in Europe under the Nazi jackboot.
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He was a lying, deceitful, disingenuous, hopeless, untalented, flatulent, vainglorious, double-dealing, warmongering, blow-hard ...
The Sun
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The Center for the Study of Commercialism considers product placement a deceitful form of advertising.
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The ambassador called the report deceitful and misleading.
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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
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Harris married his deceitfulness with a total lack of remorse or empathy—another distinctive quality of the psychopath.
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Bush/Cheney were VERY deceitful in "defending" this country.
Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says
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Will they eventually confront their dates with the truth, or continue to lead deceitful lives based on hateful deceptions?
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JONES: I do not understand that system of ethics which draws a distinction between a straightforward, honorable, veracious, and pure-minded man in private life, and a deceitful scoundrel as a public officer.
A Country of Vast Designs
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You are also deceitful, dishonest and manipulative.
The Sun
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Amazingly the train halted along the dark countryside, from time to time indulging in short, deceitful movements backward or forward, and whistling harsh paeans into the high October night.
The Beautiful and Damned
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A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband.
The Sun
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Does it make sense to make a moral judgement on a deceitful person but not on a slow clock?
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his transparently deceitful behavior
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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'
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But it's deceptive, duplicitous, and deceitful.
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That is so wilfully deceitful as to constitute a lie.
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BUT to compare Windows and Linux and make a statement like the above about opacity is ignorant at best misleading and deceitful at worse.
Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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The Greek word used in the original writing of this text that Jesus used to describe Nathanael is "dolos" … which literally means "tricky, deceitful, crafty, subtle (liar).
Pat Dollard | Young Americans
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A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning.
Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
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Distorting news is not just writing to be read, it is deceitfulness and dishonesty at their worst.
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The potential for dishonourable companies to act in this deceitful and dishonest manner will be given oxygen and allowed to profit by using the method blueprinted in this matter.
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We must show our country that there is an alternative to this deceitful, dishonest, and discredited government.
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His lawyer argued that his client had not acted deceitfully .
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Fancy a wanted criminal committing such a downright deceitful act!
The Sun
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In other words, a sneaky, crafty, deceitful person would take on the form of a snake.
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Finding it hopeless longer to look for succour or common humanity from the deceitful and infatuated court of Sicily, which persisted in prohibiting by sanguinary edicts the exportation of supplies, at his own risk, he sent his first lieutenant to the port of Girgenti, with orders to seize and bring with him to Malta the ships which were there lying laden with corn; of the numbers of which he had received accurate information.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
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At the opposite pole to divine magic is the type that is playful and deceitful, thanks to which charlatans skillfully produce effects that stupefy ignorant people.
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We must show our country that there is an alternative to this deceitful, dishonest, and discredited government.
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The patients, therefore, were obliged to yield to the sad necessity, because they could obtain no better aid from other allopathists, who had gained their knowledge from the same deceitful books.
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Count Flori "dah" and Michi "gone" and we will all see how far out of touch or "perhaps deceitful" he choses to be.
Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly
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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
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But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre.
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After the revelations of Ben Trafford's past track record and including his level of honesty and truthfulness in business dealing, his criminal record for fraud and deceit and deceitful business practices, his swindling of employees and investors and handing out bad checks, I can't regard his comments here as either benignly or well-meaningly fomented.
Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
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We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you call her deceitful, what are you?" he sputtered.
Set in Silver
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Since Social Services expenditure is only 23 per cent of the total budget, to imply that most of the tax increase is to improve services for the elderly is deceitful political spin.
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Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
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You are also deceitful, dishonest and manipulative.
The Sun
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But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre.
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It is difficult to imagine a more cunning, deceitful or warped course of conduct than yours in this case, or a more malicious one.
Times, Sunday Times
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For CBS to run an ad during a family event from an organization so hateful and deceitful is shameful.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 27, 2010
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But for a straightforward and practical English girl like herself it was nothing more than a maddening, pointless contrivance that reflected an attitude that was at once phony, deceitful and manipulative.
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Anyway you slice it, back-stabbing is hurtful, deceitful and disloyal.
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We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, when you need some deceitful con artists to assure gays that making gays eligible for the draft and for being badly crippled/killed in combat is somehow doing the gays a FAVOR — well, you need Democrats for that kind of bullshit.
Matthew Yglesias » Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
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Viewers are repeatedly given indications that there is one, distinct meaning lying behind each image, yet this is a cleverly deceitful ploy.
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It is difficult to imagine a more cunning, deceitful or warped course of conduct than yours in this case, or a more malicious one.
Times, Sunday Times
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deceitful advertising
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Zhuu accused the hospital of deceitfully undertaking unnecessary examinations and prescribing expensive medicines just to make a bigger profit.
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The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly.
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He's a deceitful, cowardly, treacherous and thoroughly unlikable man.
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It encouraged me to live deceitfully; I enjoyed living a lie.
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How quickly it got duplicitous, deceitful, diabolical, and it just came out really in last episode where the beginning of an alliance was forming.
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You are also deceitful, dishonest and manipulative.
The Sun
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she was a deceitful scheming little thing
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Choderlos de Laclos' 18 th-century novel is a marvellous monument to lust, guilt and deceitful manipulation written in letter form.
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What all this shows is that minimum effort, in the form of symbolic gestures alone, will not give firms enduring environmental credibility; instead, it lays them open to accusations of deceitfulness.
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Of course I don't think that the purveyors of ID really think this way, it's just a deceitful and hypocritical marketing strategy.
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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
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Magic ultimately brings only disaster to those in thrall to it; the denizens of faerie are singularly deceitful and inhumane; mankind is the better for having forgotten how to conjure and bewitch.
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(Compare Pr 22: 2). deceitful man -- literally, "man of vexations," an exactor. the Lord ... their eyes -- sustains their lives (1Sa 14: 27; Ps 13: 3); that is, both depend on Him, and He will do justice.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But when we use that deceitful term, one-parent, we actually mean fatherless, in the social meaning of the word, though not of course in the genetic sense.
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Those raised in urban Western understanding of the psychology of the animal kingdom tend to view the fox as a cunning, sly, deceitful animal.
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They are not deceitful or treacherous in their conduct and are faithful to their oaths and promises.
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The WSDOT campaign to deceitfully manipulate opinion in support of the malevolently engineered deep-bore tunnel has harmed many people.
McGinn Responds to Boos from Labor « PubliCola
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He was deceitful, not telling his parents, for instance, that he got honey from the carcass of a lion.
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A truthful witness saves lives , but a false witness is deceitful.
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He is deceitful and has lied to you about something vital.
The Sun
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The WSDOT campaign to deceitfully manipulate opinion in support of the malevolently engineered deep-bore tunnel has harmed many people.
McGinn Responds to Boos from Labor « PubliCola
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Hospital records show she continued to be vain and deceitful, having clothes and make-up smuggled in.
The Sun
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But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today, " that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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This statement is either deceitful or the egotistical rambling of a megalomaniac.
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That was one thing settled and sealed, so no more need be said about it; yet, notwithstanding of Nanse's being satisfied that the spaewife was a deceitful gipsy, perfectly untrustworthy, she would aye have a finger in the pie, and try to persuade me in a coaxing way.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
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And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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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
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Hence it is hard to see why she would have wanted to play the Marquise de Merteuil, the elaborately deceitful antiheroine of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Christopher Hampton's "Masterpiece Theatre" - style stage version of Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 epistolary novel about a pair of aristocratic immoralists who make the fatal mistake of putting their heads in a noose of their own knotting.
On Broadway, Bright Stars and Dim Casting
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Moreouer they are angrie and of a disdainfull nature vnto other people, and beyond all measure deceitfull, and treacherous towards them.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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Baker's door-rabbet an iron ring, and coil of rope; whereon, with firm grip, on this side and that, we form our Queue: but mischievous deceitful persons cut the rope, and our Queue becomes a ravelment; wherefore the coil must be made of iron chain.
The French Revolution
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She can not accuse me of showing one bit of deceitful softness.
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It's just one deceitful Wasp after another, cuckolding their best friends as they bilk them of their inherited wealth.
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DOBBS: Well, what you call noncontroversial, millions of Americans consider, well, just downright deceitful ...
CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2007
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His behavior was not only deceitful and unethical, but it was also potentially damaging to his own party.
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These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions.
PUTTING THE "FEDERAL" BACK IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE
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This was drunk in a kind of cubby-hole off the night nursery, the three colonials having failed to fraternise with the posse of English servants who had been taken over with the house: a set of prim, starched pokers these, ran the verdict; and deceitful, too, with their “sirs” and “madams” to your face, and all the sneery backbiting that went on below-stairs.
The Way Home
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We have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom of our own.
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He's a deceitful, cowardly, treacherous and thoroughly unlikable man.
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A perpetrator often is deceitful and manipulative.
Christianity Today
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This expression (etre siffle) bears the stamp of the deceitfully affable vulgarity in which he frequently took pleasure in indulging.
Ten Years' Exile
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Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful.
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With respect to the proposition that some politician is deceitful, traditional grammar suggests the division ˜Some politician/is deceitful™, with the noun ˜politician™ forming a constituent with the quantificational word.
Logical Form
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Anyway you slice it, back-stabbing is hurtful, deceitful and disloyal.
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Parents of troublesome youths may not be surprised that the curve peaks at the age of 12 when almost all of them will be deceitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was something about his eyes that made Robin feel wary of him, the eyes of someone deceitful and traitorous.
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Distressed by his deceitful, frivolous use of their savings, the Blackwells told friends that they would never again trust their son with money.
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Rousseau imagined that the childhood of some men is accompanied by this seeming and deceitful dulness, which is the sign of a profound genius; and Roger Ascham has placed among "the best natures for learning, the sad-natured and hard-witted child;" that is, the thoughtful, or the melancholic, and the slow.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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the deceitfulness of riches;" the term riches includes also, as we may gather from Luke's narrative, the pleasures which riches procure.
The Parables of Our Lord
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I knew not that thy men were crafty and deceitful like a fox.
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Canadian documentary The Corporation, which depicts large companies as greedy, manipulative, deceitful psychopaths, is currently enjoying box-office success.
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We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘In the context of these admissions, it follows that she agreed to provide a false, deceitful account,’ Mr Latham said.
