deceitful
dih-SEET-fuladjMeaning trying to make others believe what is false
Memory hook de-SEE-tful: you SEE what isn’t there. Rex paints a plain rock gold and tells the tourists it is pirate treasure. Making people see what isn’t there is deceitful.
The deceitful player pretended to be hurt so the referee would call a foul.
In context The ad looked friendly, but it was deceitful: tiny print at the bottom revealed that the “free” game cost ten dollars a month.
Similar dishonest, lying, deceptive, false
Opposite honest, truthful, candid
From deceit, Old French deceite, from Latin decipere, “to catch, to trap.”