deceiptfully
deceiptfully is the obsolete form of deceitfully.
Meaning of deceitfully
Adverb
deceitfully (comparative more deceitfully, superlative most deceitfully)
- 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
- 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 of deceiptfully
| comparative | more deceiptfully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most deceiptfully |
Origin of deceiptfully
From deceiptful + -ly.
Questions about deceiptfully
- What is deceiptfully the obsolete form of?
- Deceiptfully is the obsolete form of deceitfully.
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