Sentence examples for to deceitful from inspiring English sources

Fraud extends to deceitful behaviour.

Small wonder that the industry's leaders stay out of the spotlight, and are reduced to deceitful PR, lobbying, political donations, legal threats and processes and working through front groups.

At the time of the Taylor Report, the then Prime Minister was briefed by her private secretary that the defensive and – I quote – "close to deceitful" behaviour of senior South Yorkshire officers was "depressingly familiar".

Our generation faces a hostile future and if we respond to deceitful politicians and a hysterical media with discord and disunity, we will let ourselves, and the generations to come, down.

In documents disclosed to the panel, the then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was briefed that "the defensive – and at times close to deceitful – behaviour by senior officers in South Yorkshire sounds depressingly familiar".

Some critics of the policy, which will allow hundreds of thousands of young people to work and obtain driver's licenses and other documents, say it is an open invitation to deceitful actions by people who promote themselves as immigration consultants but often charge exorbitant fees and skirt the law.

A strategy known to be deceitful, however, seems bound to fail.

The most common reasons that respondents did not want to assume other sexual identities were that they had no interest, that they found the practice of gender switching to be deceitful and that they wanted to present their real selves online.

I think he was willing to be deceitful about it because he thought it was right".

A "false positive", when a person is adjudged to be deceitful although he is telling the truth, can be brought on by nerves and can be corrected later.

But he also found Monis didn't have a psychiatric illness, rather a complex personality disorder which led to vicious, deceitful, manipulative and antisocial attitudes and behaviour.