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deceitfulness
[dih-seet-fuhl] 
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deceitfulness
[dih-seet-fuhl]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craftiness |
| Synonyms: | double-dealing, duplicity, knavery, wile |
| Antonyms: | honesty |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | disloyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfaithfulness |
| Synonyms: | apostasy, bad faith, betrayal of trust, breach of trust, breaking of faith, deceitfulness, disaffection, double-dealing, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, sedition, seditiousness, subversive activity, treachery, treason, untrueness, violation |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, loyalty, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | perjury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying while under oath |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, false oath, false swearing, false testimony, falsehood, falsification, untruth, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | treason |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty |
| Synonyms: | breach of faith, crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, lèse- majesté, mutiny, perfidy, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, seditious act, seditiousness, subversion, traitorousness, treachery |
| Antonyms: | allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | insincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, falsity, hypocrisy, lies, pretense |
| Main Entry: | prevarication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, falsehood, fib, lie |
| Main Entry: | quackery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charlatanism |
| Synonyms: | deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, trickery |
| Main Entry: | seditiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treason |
| Synonyms: | breach of faith, crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, lèse- majesté, mutiny, perfidy, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, seditious act, subversion, traitorousness, treachery |
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