The phrase "deceitful character" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe someone who behaves with dishonesty or cunning. For example, you could say: "The protagonist in the novel was a deceitful character who often lied in order to get what he wanted."
BEN GREENMAN: The layman's view of the agent is of a fast-talking, profane, deceitful character who will do absolutely anything to get his client ahead of the competition.
As Anna Bolena, Ms. Sills twists, sometimes piteously, sometimes hysterically, on a hook of the deceitful character's own contriving, and if the overall effort falls short of the other two, the fault lies with the ramshackle construction of the drama.
It was these confusing, contradictory role models, coupled with her insecure childhood, that led her to gravitate to unbalanced, volatile relationships with domineering and deceitful characters such as John Levy, James Monroe and Joe Guy.
A quick text search in Pride and Prejudice turns up just the thing: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" The trouble is that these words are spoken by one of Austen's most deceitful characters, a woman who has no interest in books at all: Caroline Bingley.
An increasingly marginalised Scott left No 10 in 2003 for the City, and the following year he published his book Off Whitehall, which created a stir because it was a first-hand account of the rows between Brown and Blair and highlighted the former's "destructive and deceitful behaviour" and character failings.
His prose is benignly professorial, always measured, and occasionally rises to dry irony, such as when he writes about James Mill, who, in his history of India, managed to describe the deceitful and perfidious character of Hindus without knowing any Indian language or having visited India.
Furious Muslim critics complained that the Lego set's Asian and oriental figures were "deceitful and criminal" characters, like gun-runners, slave masters and terrorists.
In the first movie, Mr. Stiller's character is deceitful and petulant; in the second, he's downright repellent.
Contrary to what Dilbert might have us believe, leaders' gaps in self-awareness are rarely due to deceitful, Machiavellian motives or severe character deficits.
Contrary to what Dilbert might have us believe, leaders' gaps in self-awareness are rarely due to deceitful, Machiavellian motives, or severe character deficits.
In contrast, we hypothesised that the representation of a scenario depicting a character's concealed deceitful intention would recruit additional brain activation [14].
