deceitfully

English

Alternative forms

• deceiptfully (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English deceitful

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English deceitfully

From deceitful + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsiːtf(ə)li/

Adverb

deceitfully (comparative more deceitfully, superlative most deceitfully)

1. In a deceitful manner.
   • 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:

     Though true cylinders without — within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.

2. With the intention to deceive.
   • 2013, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, Gray Tuttle, Sources of Tibetan Tradition, →ISBN, page 464:

     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.

Translations

in a deceitful manner

• Finnish: vilpillisesti (fi), petollisesti (fi)
• French: trompeusement (fr)
• Italian: subdolamente (it), proditoriamente (it), infidamente (it), falsamente (it)
• Swedish: vilseledande (sv)