Qualities
Synonyms for deceitful
The synonym for deceitful recorded in this bank is duplicitous, in the sense "marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for deceitful
- duplicitousadjective, in the sense "marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and deceitful carries one sense so far.
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.
The true synonym
duplicitous
Same sentence, swapped: She was a duplicitous scheming little thing.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where deceitful stands in the sentence above.
- inventive
- astute
- tactical
Where deceitful turns up in the game
deceitful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play deceitful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so deceitful reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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