The phrase "deceitful for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in a context where someone is being deceptive or misleading for a specific purpose or reason. Example: The politician was accused of being deceitful for his own personal gain, rather than for the benefit of his constituents.
She felt deceitful for not telling Winter her secret.
Mr. Romney's first television ad of the campaign, shown Tuesday, lashes out at Mr. Obama's economic record and was heavily criticized by Democrats as deceitful for taking a quotation from the president out of context.
The World Anti-Doping Agency called cycling's world governing body, known as the U.C.I., deceitful for shutting down its independent doping panel and said it would not participate in an amnesty commission set up by the U.C.I.
Mr. Corzine blasted Mr. Florio as deceitful for reversing his stand on the investment of government money in the stock market as a way to bolster Social Security, a plan that Mr. Corzine supports but for which he has come under heavy fire in recent months.
It isn't until the novel is almost over that Ellen, by now a soft-spoken, middle-aged high school English teacher, admits to an unlikely respect for Shakespeare's Iago, who was called deceitful for declaring "I am not what I am".
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has accused the International Cycling Union (UCI) of being "deceitful" for claiming both would be working together on a truth and reconciliation process (TRC).
On the far left in this country & elsewhere, his proposals are regarded as a complete fraud--not merely a means of exploiting foreign policy for votes at home but a deceitful scheme for perpetuating the war & imposing American domination.
Why this radiant, kind woman would put up with such a childish, deceitful deadbeat for more than five minutes remains a mystery; she must be an angel.
The prepared statement by Best Foreign Language Film winner Asghar Farhadi, delivered by the Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari, was a forceful denunciation of "the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the U.S.," and of the enmity that could serve as "a deceitful justification for aggression and war".
A deceitful justification for aggression and war.
A deceitful justification for aggression and war," she continued.
