How to Use deceitful in a Sentence

deceitful

adjective

• Nixon, after all, was merely a deceitful presidential candidate at the time; the coercive powers of the presidency itself are far greater.
  — Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2019
• Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2018
• The deceitful tactic was called out by The Seattle Times.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 13 June 2020
• It’s the kind of deceitful ad that Samsung made before Google.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 May 2022
• But the more damaging attack is less about health care and more on the idea that Harris has been deceitful.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2019
• To date, Linn has turned down only one request that felt deceitful.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• This new year, instead of a detox, try to rid yourself of the influence of deceitful diet ads.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
• On top of that deceitful and cringey moment, the next scene shows Sandoval and Ariana on a roller-skating date.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2023
• The very deceitful reporters are sitting in a room, drinking their free-trade coffee and making up fake news.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• The National Weather Service has been warning people to keep an eye out for these kinds of deceitful posts for the past week.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
• The Dyson report also found that Bashir used deceitful methods to gain access to Princess Diana.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
• Your intent is to stretch yourself, not be deceitful or wrongful.
  — Avery Blank, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Any activity against the deceitful and thievish Putin's regime.
  — NBC News, 22 Mar. 2022
• Any activity against the deceitful and thievish Putin’s regime.
  — Paul Leblanc, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
• My mom was deceitful and my father was ignorant and self-centered.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• Tex Morgan, who is running for land commissioner in the March primary as a Democrat, said the non-disclosure of the home and the trust is deceitful.
  — Alejandra Matos, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• The lessons of dealing with tyrants The Atlantic offers a sort-of primer on how journalists elsewhere deal with repressive, deceitful regimes.
  — The Hive, 24 Jan. 2017
• The book’s second half focuses on a boy named Mark who grows into a deceitful teenage addict and clubgoer.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2022
• For these four trustees to state that the OCR process was complete and there is nothing left to be done is deceitful, and pointedly ignores the requests and input from survivors, as well as best practices.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2019
• Check out the deceitful way this franchise, including Luck, has handled this injury.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2017
• If only Chow and Su could meet outside their deceitful partners and watchful neighbors!
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• McKesson alleges Arkansas used deceitful tactics to buy a replacement batch when one of the drugs expired.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2017
• The deceitful novel in question is not just a narrative prop but a stone thrown into a lake; its consequences ripple through the lives of those around the author at the story’s center.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2024
• The rhetoric is deceitful and has no basis in reality, and in the prescription drug market the notion is comical.
  — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Shame on all of them, especially Thurmond, a former school board member in West Contra Costa, home of one of the state’s most deceitful bond programs.
  — Barbara Marshman, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
• The sit-down has since been discredited after it was found that deceitful methods were used to secure the interview with Diana.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
• Such attacks might have some impact, after thousands of deceitful Facebook ads this fall.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books, 4 June 2020
• If Ted Cruz had perpetrated some kind of deceitful propaganda on Sotomayor, this would have been all over the front-page news.
  — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• For centuries, authors have described this sound as deceitful or mischievous.
  — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
• The rationale behind the United Airlines employee's deceitful or inaccurate report extends far beyond a mere ice request or innocent tap on the shoulder.
  — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024