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Deceitful Melody — (2000) is an album by Odes Of Ecstasy. Track listing Ignorance – 6:30 Deceitful Melody – 7:02 One with the Darkness – 4:49 The Floating City of Sun – 4:45 Abstract Thoughts (Edgar Allan Poe) – 7:05 The Conqueror Worm – 5:02 Stigmata – 7:47 In… … Wikipedia
Deceitful — De*ceit ful, a. Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. [1913 Webster] Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
deceitful — index collusive, colorable (specious), deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, evasive … Law dictionary
deceitful agreement — index collusion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
deceitful compact — index collusion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
deceitful practice — index fraud Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
deceitful — mid 15c., from DECEIT (Cf. deceit) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Deceitfully; deceitfulness … Etymology dictionary
deceitful — *dishonest, mendacious, lying, untruthful Analogous words: crafty, tricky, wily, guileful, foxy, insidious, cunning, *sly, artful: underhand, underhanded, stealthy, furtive, clandestine (see SECRET): *crooked, devious, oblique: delusory,… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
deceitful — [adj] dishonest, insincere artful, astucious, astute, beguiling, clandestine, counterfeit, crafty, cunning, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, double dealing, duplicitous, fallacious, false, feline, foxy,… … New thesaurus
deceitful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ acting to deceive others. DERIVATIVES deceitfully adverb deceitfulness noun … English terms dictionary
deceitful — [dē sēt′fəl, disēt′fəl] adj. 1. tending to deceive; apt to lie or cheat 2. intended to deceive; deceptive; false SYN. DISHONEST deceitfully adv. deceitfulness n … English World dictionary
