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deceitful: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

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mealy-mouthed collapse

underhand collapse: with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level; "an underhand pitch"; "an underhand stroke"

perjured collapse

mendacious collapse: intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"

uncandid collapse

disloyal collapse: deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers"

untruthful collapse: not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person"

phoney collapse

perfidious collapse

traitorous collapse

forsworn collapse

falsehearted collapse

vulpine collapse: resembling or characteristic of a fox; "vulpine cunning"

disingenuous collapse: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"

plausible collapse: apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; "a plausible excuse"; given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments; "a plausible liar"

cagey collapse: characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"; showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

chiseling collapse

wily collapse

guileful collapse

two faced collapse

double dealing collapse

calculating collapse: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"

furtive collapse: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

ambidextrous collapse: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray; equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon"

surreptitious collapse

knavish collapse

unscrupulous collapse: without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power"

sophistical collapse

spurious collapse

lying collapse: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

hypocritical collapse: professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

misleading collapse

faithless collapse: having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"

strategic collapse: highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war; "a strategic chess move"; "strategic withdrawal"; "strategic bombing missions"; relating to or concerned with strategy; "strategic weapon"; "the islands are of strategic importance"; "strategic considerations"

fraudulent collapse

underhanded collapse

tactical collapse: of or pertaining to tactic or tactics; "a tactical error"

evasive collapse: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"; avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

pawky collapse: cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch

treacherous collapse: dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"

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