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deceitful

 adjective
     
de‧ceit‧ful
someone who is deceitful tells lies in order to get what they want:
His manner was sly and deceitful.
—deceitfully adverb:
His lawyer argued that his client had not acted deceitfully.
—deceitfulness noun [uncountable]
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