Sentence examples for deceitful means from inspiring English sources

He told the Associated Press shortly after his arrest that Kazakh authorities had employed "the dirtiest, most deceitful means to discredit me" in the eyes of Western governments.

The intentional use of the placebo effect in clinical care, often a deceitful means to help a patient feel better, is less widely accepted (Bok 1999, 61ff.; Beauchamp and Childress 2008, 125).

Under a plea agreement announced by the Justice Department, Mr. Riady agreed to plead guilty to a felony, conspiracy to defraud the United States by obstructing the work of the Federal Election Commission "through deceitful and dishonest means".

"Hallucinate" once meant "deceive," and "prestigious" once meant "deceitful".

That's a very old Norse word, which before the Middle Ages didn't mean deceitful guile, but special knowledge and skills — the ability to track down what you need in unfavourable conditions when everyone else is hungry.

An interesting one, we dislike her because she is mean, deceitful and unrelenting in her treatment towards Pip.

The act outlaws fraud, which the state's highest court has interpreted to mean "all deceitful practices contrary to the plain rules of common honesty".

The president's campaign spokesman says this makes it "a deceitful and dishonest attack" meant to distract from Romney's own record in Massachusetts.

It was only in the twentieth century that the use of "bull" to mean pretentious, deceitful, jejune language became semantically attached to the male of the bovine species — or, more particularly, to the excrement therefrom.

Machiavelli came up with "Divide and ye govern," so we might wonder if these dissidents wish to align themselves with someone whose very name means cunning and deceitful.

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