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Jenkins attempted to cooperate with the federal government but was deemed manipulative and deceitful.

For the Netflix adaptation, there were bumps in the road beyond the public uncovering of Mallory’s deceitful nature.

From Time

The McDermott case is a symptom of a complex college disease, one that values the program over the kids who sweat to maintain it, one that keeps profiting off deceitful, paternalistic attitudes about raising young athletic phenoms.

In one scene, she’s being pummeled by a deceitful and financially abusive lover.

In an interview with Fortune, Levchin reiterated his familiar mantra that the credit card industry is deceitful and immoral, and that Affirm offers a way to provide consumers credit with dignity.

From Fortune

As a hunter with many guns, I despise these bullies and their deceitful shams of wildlife protection.

It also put a target on his back, and Fleck complained about what he described as a “vicious… deceitful and… personal” campaign.

The Bar determined his failure to inform his client was both dishonest and deceitful.

For years, law-enforcement officials have relied on facial and body language to determine when someone is being deceitful.

Already, Ron Paul has ads up branding Rick Santorum a deceitful, cash-grabbing dirtbag and “serial hypocrite.”

It was at this parliament that the famous acts against horse racing and deceitful gaming were passed.

The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

Avoid affectation; it is the sure test of a deceitful, vulgar mind.

Destroyed!I feel all hope and all desire depart,For life and its deceitful joys.Forever rest!

It is the offspring of a sickly taste, a deceitful heart, and a sure proof of low breeding.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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