Sentence examples for something deceitful from inspiring English sources

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You can use craft to make something clear and precise, and you can use it to produce something deceitful and misleading.

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But did my artful dodging amount to something more deceitful than I would admit?

Having described the legacy of thirty-four years of Hutu Power dictatorship as "a very bad mentality," Karemera said, "In Kinyarwanda we call it ikinamucho — that if you want to do something you are deceitful and not straight.

"If he was clearly innocent, would they have been able to search his house?" Napolitano thought that a judge would take any reason at a moment like this, but there had to be "something" — maybe he appeared "deceitful".

"If he was clearly innocent, would they have been able to search his house?" Napolitano thought that a judge would take any reason at a moment like this, but there had to be "something"—maybe he appeared "deceitful".

This feature, almost universal in all previous architecture, ever, came to be seen as fake and deceitful, as something like the hypocritical morality of the 19th century, and contrary to the modernist ideal of displaying the inner nature of a building on the outside.

The two had something in common accusations of deceitful accounting had left a lingering pall over both their companies.

Spend time learning to understand the people close to you, so that when they say or do something which is hurtful or deceitful, you can figure out why.

Uyttendaele's sentiment echoes that of Calvino's Polo, who says, "Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else".

The theme of this year's festival was The Invisible City, after Italo Calvino's 1972 novel Invisible Cities, in which he wrote that cities, "like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else".

As a counterpoint, he also cites Italo Calvino's Marco Polo, who in that enchanting book Invisible Cities tells Kublai Khan: "Cities, like dreams, are made of desire and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else".

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