Word Meanings - DECEITLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to DECEITLESS)

• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• DECEITLESS
  Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.
• DECEITFULLY
  With intent to deceive.
• DECEIT
  Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation. Syn. -- Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity;
• DECEITFULNESS
  1. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. 2. The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices. 3. Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.
• SELF-DECEIT
  The act of deceiving one's self, or the state of being self- deceived; self-deception.