How to Use deceitful in a Sentence

deceitful

adjective
  • Worse yet, its structure is deceitful.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Some are even using AI for things that feel small but can still be deceitful.
    — Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
  • To date, Linn has turned down only one request that felt deceitful.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Americans need to work harder to peer through all his deceitful haze.
    — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Your intent is to stretch yourself, not be deceitful or wrongful.
    — Avery Blank, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • My mom was deceitful and my father was ignorant and self-centered.
    — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Others agreed that her actions were thoughtful, not deceitful.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • This new year, instead of a detox, try to rid yourself of the influence of deceitful diet ads.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • For centuries, authors have described this sound as deceitful or mischievous.
    — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
  • Any activity against the deceitful and thievish Putin's regime.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Any activity against the deceitful and thievish Putin’s regime.
    — Paul Leblanc, CNN, 22 Apr. 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
  • Check out the deceitful way this franchise, including Luck, has handled this injury.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • If only Chow and Su could meet outside their deceitful partners and watchful neighbors!
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • It has been pillaged, wounded, dragged into an aggressive war, and turned into a prison run by the most unscrupulous and deceitful scoundrels.
    — Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Walsh just may have written the first domestic suspense novel in which the deceitful spouse is also a genuinely nice person.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
  • For crime writers, who have good reason to attend to how this chain of command can fluctuate, deceitful memories have long been a plot staple.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Musk has accused Altman of fraud and other deceitful behavior in a case scheduled to go to trial in late April.
    — Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The same goes for Shelly Regner, who plays the alluring but ever-deceitful Brigid.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • McKesson alleges Arkansas used deceitful tactics to buy a replacement batch when one of the drugs expired.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The Ferengi, a species of traders, were physically grotesque, deceitful, and always looking for a profit.
    — Laurence Scott, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020

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