deceitful

adjective

1 he is surrounded by deceitful advisors:

dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false, deceiving, dissembling, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, cheating, underhand, crafty, cunning, sly, guileful, scheming, calculating, conniving, designing, hypocritical, perfidious, treacherous, Machiavellian, Janus-faced;

informal sneaky, tricky, foxy, crooked, sharp, shady, shifty, slippery;

British, informal bent;

South African, informal slim;

archaic subtle, hollow-hearted;

rare false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic.

▷antonyms honest.

2 they dismissed the allegations as deceitful:

fraudulent, counterfeit, fabricated, invented, concocted, made up, trumped up, untrue, hollow, false, sham, bogus, fake, illusory, spurious, specious, fallacious, deceptive, misleading, misguided, distorted;

informal fakey;

humorous economical with the truth.

▷antonyms true.