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Deceitfulness   Listen
noun
Deceitfulness  n.  
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."





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"Deceitfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... the treachery and deceitfulness of the heart, which is bent to follow by-ways, being not only "deceitful above all things, but also ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)
... he left the house, when the meeting was over, and having got thus far it might naturally be supposed that he would not rest until he got farther. He had got thus far many a time before, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches had done their part in the past to put the thought away, and they ...
— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson
... I think sometimes we are inclined to put many things on the devil's shoulders which ought to rest on our own. You know what the Bible says about the deceitfulness ...
— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne
... one white lie, but had always been frank, open and ingenuous as if she and her husband were not husband and wife, or indeed of opposite sexes. Yet we must rate him as very foolish, that living thus with a fox, which beast has the same reputation for deceitfulness, craft and cunning, in all countries, all ages, and amongst all races of mankind, he should expect this fox to be as candid and honest with him in all things as the country girl ...
— Lady Into Fox • David Garnett


Words linked to "Deceitfulness" :   disingenuousness, craftiness, deceitful, guile


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