Sentence examples for been deceitful from inspiring English sources

But even then, if a re-examination reveals her to have been deceitful, some punishment short of firing — suspension or a fine, perhaps — is appropriate.

The first is that Robinson, cash cow to his influential Labour friends, himself got £200,000 from the crooked Robert Maxwell and has been deceitful about it ever since.

In that opening speech, Patrick Sinclair, the assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, tried to head off all the confusing Wall Street jargon soon to be unleashed by claiming the defendants had simply been deceitful.

Johan wants to be "honest" with Marianne — they've shared everything, including, ironically, their family values — but how can you determine the truth of a relationship, when one partner has been deceitful, in order to protect himself and his dream of a free and different love?

That has led to a tangle of statements and explanations from London, and charges by the Conservative opposition leader, David Cameron, that Mr. Brown and his ministers have been deceitful in their dealings with Washington and their public statements at home.

Then, I began to ponder on the people who have given the soul sorrow, or who have been deceitful, angry, manipulative and negative and the impact it would have on our soul compared to the ones who offered hope and joy.

What you are proposing is deceitful -- done for a good purpose, perhaps, but still deceit.

It is deceitful.

"Their movement is deceitful.

It's deceitful".

It is deceitful and selfish.