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The word 'deceitfully' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe when someone is deliberately trying to trick or deceive someone. For example, "He smiled deceitfully at his opponent, knowing that his next move would be full of surprises."
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deceitfully
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In a deceitful manner
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This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead.
Schools, he points out, must take insurances against liability, but "if they acted very wilfully and deceitfully, and committed a crime, they might be [liable] because insurance has certain limits".
His old allies, the Greens, cannot forgive him for dumping them (deceitfully they say) when he founded TOP 09.
Mark Barry, a "competitive intelligence professional", disguises himself as a headhunter to extract information for his corporate clients from rivals, while telling the camera that he would never behave so deceitfully in his private life.
QUESTION FROM ASHER: It does not seem possible now to eliminate the statutory debt ceiling as the Republicans have effectively, albeit deceitfully, used it to attempt to reign in deficit spending.
Wiser and (by her own flawed reckoning) more alluring, Betty deceitfully gets the doctor all to herself, and while he's kissing, chloroforming and butchering her, we hear from Norma Jeane, who's upset because Betty has failed to pick her up from the bar where they'd planned to meet.
"The company and certain of its employees forged student signatures, falsified sign-in sheets and provided false certifications in order to deceitfully profit from a well-meaning program," the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, said in a statement.
Scientists have discovered still another trick in the portfolio of brood parasites — the birds that deceitfully lay their eggs in the nests of other species, that way increasing their own numbers by duping other mothers into raising their young.
A prominent environmental researcher, activist and blogger from California admitted Monday night that he had deceitfully obtained and distributed confidential internal materials from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian group based in Chicago devoted in part to questioning the reality of global warming.
"The enemy has very deceitfully taken advantage of the Tet ceasefire to launch an offensive all over the country," Lockhart tells his reporters.
The flight out being deceitfully punctual should have tipped me off that I was being set up.
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