Reverse Dictionary: DECEIT

ADJECTIVES
..897 — DERN of deceitful nature; cruel or barbarous → obs.
..897 — TWIFOLD double-dealing, deceitful, insincere → obs.
1000 — FAKEN deceitful, fraudulent → obs.
1000 — SWIKEL deceitful, treacherous, crafty → obs.
1100 — SWIKEFUL deceitful, treacherous → obs. exc. Sc.
1175 — SWIKE deceitful; treacherous; traitorous → obs.
1225 — SLIDDERY deceitful, sly, shifty, evasive; not trustworthy → obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
1225 — WRENCHFUL deceitful, artful, crafty → obs.
1300 — GINFUL ingenious; crafty, guileful; deceitful, treacherous → obs.
1303 — DECEIVABLE deceitful, deceptive → obs.
1325 — ENGINOUS deceitful, cunning, crafty, clever, ingenious → obs.
1380 — CAUTELOUS deceitful, crafty, sly, cunning, artful, wily → obs.
1382 — GUILESOME – full of guile; deceitful, false → obs.
1384 — DOUBLE-TONGUED deceitful or insincere in speech; speaking contrary or inconsistent things
1393 — DECEIVANT deceitful, deceiving, deceptive → obs.
1393 — FALLACE deceitful, fallacious; deceptive, misleading → obs.
1400 — JENFUL  deceitful → obs.
1481 — DECEITEOUS deceitful → obs.
1533 — FALSESOME deceitful, untrue → obs. exc. Sc.
1538 — PERFIDIOUS guilty of breaking faith or violating confidence; deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful and untrustworthy
1555 — DOUBLE-HEARTED deceitful, dissembling
1570 — COVINOUS deceitful, fraudulent, collusive, dishonest → obs.
1584 — LUBRICIOUS deceitful, unreliable
1586 — SNAKY deceitful, guileful, treacherous 
1588 — SUBDOLOUS somewhat deceitful, crafty, sly, cunning, artful 
1593 — FALSE-HEART deceitful, false-hearted; unfaithful → obs.
1600 — FAITEROUS characterized by deceit; treacherous → obs.
1600 — SIRENIAN deceitful, alluring, seductive 
..17C — BOTH-SIDES deceitful, two-faced, double-dealing → obs.
1623 — IMPOSTORIOUS deceitful; fraudulent; having the character of an impostor or imposture → obs.
1631 — LUBRIC deceitful, slippery, shifty; wavering, unsteady, uncertain; prone to danger or error → obs.
1632 — CROCODILIAN deceitful; making a hypocritical show of grief; cruel and treacherous → obs.
1632 — PERFIDIATE perfidious, deceitful and untrustworthy → obs.
1637 — GNATHONIC deceitful, flattering, sycophantic, parasitical 
1639 — ULYSSEAN deceitful, cunning; characteristic of or resembling Ulysses in craft or deceit 
1641 — COVENOUS collusive, deceitful → US
1654 — FUCATIOUS deceitful, fair-seeming, specious, counterfeit → obs.
1656 — TWO-HEARTED double-hearted, deceitful
1656 — VETERATORIAN deceitful, crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, sly; gotten by long use, experienced → obs.
1663 — FALLACIOUS deceitful → obs.
1674 — SLIVERLY deceitful, cunning, crafty, knavish, artful → Eng. dial.
1689 — RUSÉ given to ruses; cunning, deceitful
1696 — TWO-TONGUED deceitful, double-tongued 
1730 — FALLACILOQUENT speaking deceitfully → obs.
1766 — TRICKSY deceitful, underhanded; inclined to swindle or cheat 
1805 — SLIGGY deceitful, sly → Sc. obs.
1866 — FAIR-FACED deceitful, superficially polite, suave → Sc.
1867 — SLEEVEEN deceitful → Ireland (Bk.)
1881 — CARNEY deceitful, false → Eng. dial.
1892 — HOOK AND SNIVEY • HOOK AND SNIVVY • HOOKEM-SNIVEY • HOOKUM-SNIVEY deceitful, tricky, sly → Eng. dial. & sl.
1893 — BACK-HANDED deceitful, underhanded → Eng. dial.
1900 — GURLY deceitful, fair-spoken → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — UNDERNEAN deceitful, treacherous, underhand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1915 — FULL OF BULL deceitful; full of nonsense and lies → US sl.
1920 — GYP deceitful, cheating → sl.
1922 — ‘CEITFUL deceitful →Amer. dial.
1932 — FULL OF CRAP deceitful; full of nonsense and lies → US sl.
1934 — FULL OF SHIT deceitful; full of nonsense and lies → US sl.
1937 — SHEENY deceitful, dubious, fraudulent → UK sl.
1958 — DUPLICITOUS deceitful, showing duplicity, two-faced, double-dealing 
1964 — JIVE-ASS deceitful, pretentious, insincere → Amer. dial.
1966 — TWO-FACED AS A METHODIST AX deceitful, two-faced, untrustworthy → Amer. dial.
1969 — JIVE deceitful, pretentious, insincere → Amer. dial.
1969 — JIVE-TIME deceitful, pretentious, insincere → Amer. dial.
1970 — FULL OF IT deceitful; full of nonsense → Brit. & US colloq.
1970 — JIVE-TOWN deceitful, pretentious, insincere → Amer. dial.
1975 — OKEY-DOKE deceitful, swindling → US criminals’ sl.
1990 — STOOGE deceitful, hoaxing → Aust. sl.
1993 — JIVE-ASS lying; deceitful; boastful → sl., orig. African-American (Bk.)

ADVERBS
1000 — GAMELY deceitfully, artfully → obs.
1023 — SWIKELLY deceitfully, treacherously → obs.
1325 — SUBTLY deceitfully, treacherously, craftily; with craft or guile → obs.
1330 — FAINTLY deceitfully, feignedly, by way of feint or pretense → obs.
1387 — DECEIVABLY deceitfully, fraudulently, falsely → obs.
1430 — DOUBLY with duplicity; deceitfully
1481 — DECEITEOUSLY deceitfully → obs.
1592 — SIMULATELY deceitfully, by or with pretense → obs.
1797 — DECEPTIOUSLY deceitfully, delusively, in such a way as to deceive → obs.
1871 — BAKSPANGANLIE deceitfully → Sc.
2002 — SNIDE deceitfully, secretly → UK sl.

NOUNS
..893 — SWIKE – deceit, deception, treachery; a trick → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
..893 — SWIKEDOM deceit, fraud; treachery, treason → obs.
..950 — DWALE deceit, fraud → obs.
..950 — TWISPECHE double or deceitful speech → obs.
1000 — ADDER a treacherous, deceitful, malicious, or pernicious person or thing; also, a term of abuse
1000 — DWALE error, delusion; deceit, fraud → obs.
1023 — SWIKELNESS deceitfulness, treachery → obs.
1175 — CROOK deceit, guile, trickery; a crooked piece of conduct; a trick, artifice, wile → obs.
1225 — DWELE deceit, delusion, error; a going astray → obs.
1230 — FALSESHIP deceit, dishonesty; untruthfulness → obs.
1250 — SWIKEHEAD deceit, fraud; treachery, treason → obs.
1297 — FALSEHOOD deceitfulness, falseness, mendacity, faithlessness → obs.
1300 — FUNNY WORK deceit, a lie; mockery, derisive deception → obs.
1303 — GUILERY deception, deceit, cheating, trickery → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1303 — LOSENGERY flattery, deceit → obs.
1330 — DECEIVANCE deceit, deception → obs.
1340 — FAINTISE deceit, dissimulation, hypocrisy, pretense → obs.
1374 — DOUBLENESS duplicity, deceitfulness, treachery
1375 — FALSET deceit, falsehood → chiefly Sc. obs.
1377 — FAITING deceit, pretense → obs.
1386 — DOUBLE TONGUE duplicity or deceitfulness of speech → obs.
1390 — MALENGIN deceit, guile, fraud; evil machination; ill-intent → obs.
1398 — FELLNESS deceitfulness, treachery; craftiness → obs.
1400 — FALSAGE deceit, falsehood → obs.
1420 — FAGE a deceit, fiction; the act of coaxing or deceiving → obs.
1487 — COVIN fraudulent action of any kind to the injury of another; fraud, deceit, treachery → arch.
1526 — DECEIVABLENESS deceitfulness, deceit; deceptiveness → obs.
1529 — FALSE POINT a stroke of deceit; a trick → obs.
1573 — DOUBLING an evasion, a shift; deceitful or tricky action; double dealing
1588 — CRANK a crooked or deceitful way; a deceit, wile, sleight → obs.
1590 — COUNTERFEISANCE a counterfeiting; deceit, fraud, imposture → obs.
1592 — PERFIDY deceitfulness, untrustworthiness; betrayal of trust; breach of a promise; treachery
1604 — FUBBERY deceit, deception; the act of cheating → obs.
1607 — PERFIDITY deceitfulness, untrustworthiness; betrayal of trust; breach of a promise; treachery
1609 — CATASOPHISTRY deceit, quibbling → obs.
1611 — OBREPTION an obtaining something by deceit or craft 
1627 — GABBERIES • GABBERY wily deceits; mockeries, gibes, jests → obs.
1638 — DODGE a deceitful trick or clever stratagem, esp. one designed to evade something; dishonesty 
1656 — FALLACILOQUENCE deceitful speech → obs.
1656 — PANURGY deceit, guile, craftiness, cunning, a meddling in all matters → obs.
1684 — CRIMP deceitful practice; a dishonest line of business; a scam
1710 — FALSILOQUENCE deceitful speech; false speaking → obs.
1781 — HOOK AND SNIVEY • HOOK AND SNIVVY • HOOKEM-SNIVEY • HOOKUM-SNIVEY deceit, an imposture; trickery → Eng. dial. & sl.
..19C — HAWKERY-PAWKERY deceit, unfairness, trickery, hocus-pocus → Eng. dial.
..E19 — CABBAGE deceitful talk → sl.
1825 — BACK-GATE deceitful, cunning action; immoral or degrading conduct → Sc.
1841 — HANKY-PANKY deceit; dishonest or corrupt activity; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing → sl.
1842 — DECEIVERY deceit; a habit or course of deceit → Sc.  
1855 — DECEPTURE deceit, fraud → obs.
1855 — SHENANIGANS deceit, trickery → Amer. colloq.
1871 — GURL flattery, deceit → Sc.
1882 — FUNNY BUSINESS deceitful or underhand practices → sl.
1886 — COCUM • COKUM • KOCUM • KOKUM deceit, entrapment → Aust. sl.
1887 — NICK deceit, trickery → Sc. 
1890 — NICKERY deceit, cheating, deceit → Sc. 
1893 — JIGGERY-POKERY deceitful or dishonest dealing → Brit. sl.
1898 — ARSY-VERSY deceit, flattery → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 — ARMY GAME trickery, deceit, passing responsibility onto others → US sl.
..L19 — FUNNIES deceitful or underhand practices → sl.
..20C — FUNNY WORK deceitful or underhand practices → sl.
..20C — SAMFIEISM deceit, trickery → W. Indies sl.
1900 — DEAD-KNOWLEDGE deceitfulness, cunning → Ireland (Bk.)
1904 — BUNCO deceit, deception, swindling, fraud → US sl.
1905 — BACK-HAND deceitful dealing → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BLIN deceit → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BOUT-GATE a deceitful course; a roundabout way; an underhand means → Sc. (Bk.)
1912 — BUNCO deceit → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1914 — BUNK deceit; ostentation → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1915 — WANGLE an obtaining deceitfully → sl.
1935 — FUNNY STUFF deceitful or underhand practices → sl.
.M20 — PILE OF SHIT a deceptive story; nonsense; lies → US sl.
1977 — THE OLD CARL ROSA fraud, deceit → UK from the rhyming sl. for a poser (Carl Rosa)

NOUNS, PERSON
1529 — CRAFTER a person who practices deceit or trickery → obs.
1556 — DOUBLER a double-dealer; a deceitful person → obs.
1558 — THE CRAFTY people who are cunning, deceitful, or wily considered as a class
1573 — FALSARY a deceitful or false person → obs.
1590 — GIELANGER • GILAINGER • GILENYER • GILEYNOUR • GILLENYER • GILLEYNOUR a deceitful person; a cheat, a swindler; a miser → Sc. obs.
1632 — GIPSIE • GIPSY • GYPSY a deceitful, cunning, fickle woman → obs.
1681 — MAN OF CRAFT  a cunning, crafty, or deceitful person
1710 — GAY DECEIVER a deceitful rake; a libertine; a man who, with no real intentions of matrimony, sponges on families where there are marriageable daughters 
1819 — GAMMONER a person who tells deceitful tales; a liar; a talkative, unreliable person 
1823 — HEADCADAB a person educated in deceit; a schemer, a crafty person → Sc.
1874 — OLD SOLDIER a deceitful person; one who shams illness → Eng. dial.
1877 — VELVET-TONGUE a deceitful, smooth-spoken person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1886 — TANGER a deceitful person → Eng. dial.
1896 — POLECAT a deceitful, despicable, or contemptible person; a disreputable person → Amer. dial.
1897 — TWISTER a deceitful person → Brit. sl.
1898 — BENBITER a deceitful person; a backbiter → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 — DEAD-KNOWLEDGE MAN a deceitful or cunning man → Aust. sl.
1900 — FALSE-FACE a deceitful or insincere person → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 — FEATRIL a traitor; a deceitful person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 — NABS a deceitful, false, dishonest, or waggish fellow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 — GAME a person who is deceitful or connected to the underworld → criminals’ sl. obs.
1910 — GAME LIGHTERMAN a person who is deceitful or connected to the underworld → criminals’ sl. obs.
1910 — GAME WATERMAN a person who is deceitful or connected to the underworld → criminals’ sl. obs.
1924 — TWICER a deceitful or cunning person → sl.
1942 — SLYPUSS a deceitful or cunning girl 
1950 — DESTROYER a deceitful man → W. Indies sl.
1967 — SKINNER a deceitful or untrustworthy person → Amer. dial.
1975 — BAD ACTOR a deceitful, mean, or malicious person → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1994 — BAD GUY a deceitful, dishonest, guilty character in a situation → sl. (Bk.)

PHRASES
1965 — WOULDN’T TRUST HIM IN A MEAT HOUSE WITH A MUZZLE ON said of a deceiving person → Amer. dial.
1965 — WOULDN’T TRUST HIM IN AN OUTHOUSE WITH A MUZZLE ON said of a deceiving person → Amer. dial.

VERBS
1000 — SWIKE to act deceitfully, to practice deceit → obs.
1483 — LEGERDEMAIN to use deceit, to perform tricks → obs.
..16C — VERSE to practice deceit by verbal means → UK criminals’ sl.
1519 — HAFT to use deceit or subtlety; to use shifts or dodges; to haggle, to cavil; to avoid coming to the point → obs.
1528 — JUGGLE to play tricks so as to cheat or deceive; to practice artifice or deceit with
1808 — CHISEL • CHIZZLE to act deceitfully, to defraud, to swindle → sl.
1888 — WANGLE to obtain something by deceitful or devious means → sl., orig. printers’ usage
..20C — CLOCK A DAFFY to tell a deceitful story with the intention of tricking the hearer → S. Afr. sl.
1900 — WEAR TWO FACES UNDER ONE HAT to practise deceit → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1920 — OIL to persuade in some deceitful manner; to bribe → US sl.
1960 — GAME OFF • GAME ON to act deceitfully, to manipulate; to get an advantage over someone by underhand means → sl., orig. US
1960 — JACK AROUND to treat with deceit or contempt → US sl.
1968 — FEATHER ONE’S OWN END to gain advantage by deceitful or tricky means → Amer. dial.