Potter argues that: Women are neither victims of deceitful men nor overdefensive virgins, but individuals who can choose to 'bestow' their favours on a man who will 'enjoy' them.
On and on he went, sounding either foolish or deceitful: a man marooned in the 1930s, full of self-righteousness and howling contradictions.
We accept the misogynist construction because, at some level, we have absorbed the sexist standard that women are more deceitful than men by their nature.
This selfish, deceitful, improbably charismatic man -- one woman called him "a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath, the manners of a mountebank and the reputation, nevertheless, for being a ladies' man" -- convinced the actress that he and she were the sun and moon of Italian culture.
This is perhaps the most deceitful thing a man can lie about on his dating profile, but it does happen.
If there is a deceitful heart in men, then the hearts of women are more so".
So simultaneously you are a sinner – 'The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked' – but on the other hand: 'Seek and you shall find.' You're constantly treading this line".
Apfel also suggested that Faneuil was a calculating, deceitful and ambitious young man who decided to testify against Stewart and Bacanovic after first lying to federal investigators only when he realized those investigators were closing in.
Although I spent over 600 days as a POW of the Nazis in WWII and one of my sons is still unaccounted for in S/E Asia after 12 years, I believe this system of government is the best ever created by man...[but] deceitful is the nation that, having heroes, betrays them.
