Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
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Deceitful
Synonyms for "deceitful" (129 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (64)
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Adjective(2 words)
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 18 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- δόλιος adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- ἀπατηλός adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Bulgarian
3 entries- измамен adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- измамнически adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
- неверен adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Dutch
3 entries- bedrieglijk adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- misleidend adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- vals adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Finnish
2 entries- petollinen adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
- vilpillinen adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
French
3 entries- tricheur adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- trompeur adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- trompeur adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
German
2 entries- trügerisch adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- trügerisch adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Italian
2 entries- bugiardo adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- bugiardo adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
Latin
4 entries- fallax adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
- mendāx adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- pellāx adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- perfidus adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Māori
1 entries- titipa adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- svikefull adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- villedende adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Old English
1 entries- ġēaplīċ adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
Portuguese
2 entries- enganador adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- trapaceiro adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Russian
2 entries- лжи́вый adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- обма́нчивый adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- breugach adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- meallta adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- mealltach adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Spanish
3 entries- cubero adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- delusorio adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- embustero adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Swedish
4 entries- bedräglig adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- falsk adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
- svekfull adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
- vilseledande adj (deliberately misleading or cheating)
Ukrainian
1 entries- обма́нливий adj (deceptive — see also deceptive)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Tom is deceitful.
Source: tatoeba (2202727)
You're deceitful.
Source: tatoeba (2202728)
I think Tom is deceitful.
Source: tatoeba (3171934)
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