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DECEITFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being crafty
Synonyms:
craftiness; deceitfulness; guile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("deceitfulness" is a kind of...):
disingenuousness (the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor)
Derivation:
deceitful (marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another)
deceitful (intended to deceive)
