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Discover LudwigThe phrase "deceitful of" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means someone or something is characterized by deceit or deception. Example: The politician's statements were full of lies and deceit, making him deceitful of the public trust.
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They can't be deceitful, of course; they have to tell consumers what's in their products.
And that has everything to do with its being presented in the context of that most deliciously deceitful of art forms, the theater, something that Ms. Parks and Mr. Wolfe obviously both love to distraction.
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It goes to the culture and the structure of banks: the excessive compensation, the shoddy treatment of customers, the deceitful manipulation of a key interest rate, and today, news of yet another mis-selling scandal".
With this, the right finds credibility in the Gaullist myth of a French nation that never supported the extreme right, that the FN only exists because of rogue politicians who perverted the course of the nation; whereas the extreme left can maintain that the working classes are pure and the FN is a product of the deceitful behaviour of corrupt politicians.
The light shed by Gonnert and colleagues [ 1] on septic hepatocellular excretory dysfunction has major translational implications: as obvious as the issue may appear to updated investigators, greater awareness of this deceitful presentation of sepsis may still avoid dangerous delays in treatment.
Vice President Suleiman's speech which followed Mubarak's on the 10th of February was equally condescending and deceitful: 'Youth of Egypt, heroes of Egypt, go home,' he urged the pro-democratic protesters.
Machiavelli observes that "one can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit….
The secular group keeps using a clearly deceitful tactic of accusing us of using church-content in schools.
"April is the cruellest month" is a great line of poetry, and all reluctant students of The Waste Land are shown how TS Eliot was agonising over the futility of hope, the deceitful buds of new life.
For that fool of a boy had not been doomed by the deceitful power of comic books, which after all were only bundles of paper, staples, and ink, and couldn't hurt anybody.
And even the most brutish expression of hatred can be less injurious than deceitful expressions of good will.
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