Word Meanings - COVINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.

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• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• COLLUSIVE
  1. Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. "Collusive and sophistical arguings." J. Trapp. "Collusive divorces." Strype. 2. Acting in collusion. "Collusive parties." Burke. -- Col*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- Col*lu"sive*ness, n.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• FRAUDULENTLY
  In a fraudulent manner.
• DECEITFULLY
  With intent to deceive.
• DISHONESTLY
  In a dishonest manner.
• FRAUDULENT
  1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed
• DISHONEST
  1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them . Sir T. North. 2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,
• 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.