deceitfully en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /dɪˈsiːtf(ə)li/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree English deceitful Middle English -ly English -ly English deceitfully From deceitful + -ly.
Meanings
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in a deceitful manner
Though true cylinders without — within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
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with the intention to deceive
These days most of the relics are fabricated deceitfully, [such as those made from] a hollowed-out rock, the fruit of a sealwort, a fish eye, or remains fashioned by Nepalese, and must be analyzed by scholars.
2013, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, Gray Tuttle, Sources of Tibetan Tradition, →ISBN, page 464:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most deceitfully | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| deceiptfully | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more deceitfully | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Translations (8)
fi petollisesti (in a deceitful manner) · it subdolamente (in a deceitful manner) · fr trompeusement (in a deceitful manner) · fi vilpillisesti (in a deceitful manner) · it infidamente (in a deceitful manner) · it proditoriamente (in a deceitful manner) · sv vilseledande (in a deceitful manner) · it falsamente (in a deceitful manner)