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noun

Deceitfulness n.

The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.

Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches."

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Etymology of 'Deceitfulness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deceitfulness" Quotes from Famous Books

... punishment is wrong because it inculcates fear of pain as the motive for conduct, instead of love of righteousness. It tends directly to cultivate cowardice, deceitfulness, and anger—three faults worse than almost any fault against which it can be employed. True, some persons grow up both gentle and straightforward in spite of the fact that they have been whipped in their youth, but it is in spite of, and not because ...

— Study of Child Life • Marion Foster Washburne

... short and stout, with an unusually low and degraded countenance and apelike arms. His whole expression denoted deceitfulness. ...

— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... glanced at one another, contemptuous, incredulous smiles on their faces, while Aunt Nancy almost wept at his deceitfulness. ...

— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund

... punishment for his heterodoxy on matrimonial subjects. This is one explanation of the fact that Leprechawns are always seen alone, though other authorities make the Leprechawn solitary by preference, he having learned the hollowness of fairy friendship and the deceitfulness of fairy femininity, and left the society of his kind in disgust at its ...

— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.

... more deeply, day by day, does my understanding find the deceitfulness of my heart. Well do I remember the feelings of determination, with which I resolved, two years since, that this period should not find me halting between two opinions,—that ere this day I would be a Christian ...

— A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, - of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England • Eliza Southall

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