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The word 'deceitful' is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to describe someone or something that is dishonest, tricky, or misleading. It can also refer to actions or words that are meant to purposely deceive or mislead others. Example: Sarah realized her boyfriend had been deceitful when she discovered he had been cheating on her with multiple women.
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Deceitful
adjective
Deliberately misleading or cheating
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei added that he was concerned about the fate of nuclear talks because the other side was "deceitful and back-stabbing".
Writing in his column in the Daily Telegraph, Pietersen said: "I just find it incredibly deceitful what has happened to me and am frankly finding it difficult to understand right now.
"But I'm worried because the other side is cunning, deceitful and back-stabbing.
HRW said the workers' countries of origin also did not protect them against deceitful recruitment practices, or provide enough assistance to those women who tried to escape from their abusive employers.
"Women, some seem to believe, are self-serving, venomous and deceitful but can get away with whatever they want.
Along with many right-wing critics of the "dependency culture", he thinks that means-tested benefits are morally bad, "discouraging self-help, taxing honesty, rewarding claimants for being either inactive or deceitful".
Once acquired, Tyco's businesses were given a brutal, one-off round of job cuts, then left to fend for themselves.Nor, despite the exhaustive efforts of short-sellers and their friends in the media, is there evidence that Tyco's accounting was particuarly deceitful.
And the last hundred pages or so, which focus on Leo's relationship with Mark, who has grown up to become a deceitful and possibly murderous teenager, have the turnability of a good thriller.Much of the best writing in the book is about creativity.
It also includes examples of his gilt furniture, much loved by some, but loathed by detractors as exemplifying his showy, deceitful style.
The claims made by George Bush's administration to the American people, Congress and the UN Security Council were the product of a deceitful pre-existing neo-conservative agenda, not faulty intelligence.
That is where Serb generals engaged in ruthless, deceitful exchanges with Bosnian and UN leaders with some captive Dutch soldiers sitting nearby to concentrate people's minds.Thanks to hundreds of hours of testimony before the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague, it is now possible to piece together the outlines, at least, of what happened in these places.
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