deceit English

Meaning deceit meaning

What does deceit mean?

Definitions in simple English

deceit Noun

— Deceit is the action of make someone believe that something false is true by telling a lie deliberately.

— A deceit is an act used to deceive someone. Everything he wrote about the issue was just a deceit.

deceit

— noun (= fraudulence) the quality of being fraudulent

— noun (= misrepresentation) a misleading falsehood

— noun (= deception) the act of deceiving

Synonyms deceit synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as deceit?

deceit English » English

fraud

deception

trick

guile

cheating

trickery

lie

cunning

cheat

treachery

pretence

imposture

swindle

sham

falsehood

dissimulation

dishonesty

decoy

craft

canard

stratagem

fraudulence

delusion

wile

lies

hypocrisy

hoax

duplicity

deceitfulness

betrayal

scam

indirection

imposition

humbug

double-dealing

deceiving

chicanery

artifice

unfaithfulness

subterfuge

sophism

roguery

pretense

perfidy

misrepresentation

lying

gyp

falsity

fallacy

dupery

Topics deceit topics

What do people use deceit to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior Honest

Deceive

• What words refer to the act of deceiving someone?
  deceit deception fraud delusion cunning illusion treachery

Examples deceit examples

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Simple sentences

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Movie subtitles

No more deceit.

One night when I found that she'd come back quietly from London, I thought that Favell was with her, and I knew then I couldn't stand this life of filth and deceit any longer.

Everywhere we'll be met with lies and deceit.

No deceit, no surprises, no disgust.

But then, with a collar around your lovely neck. it's hard to tell. whether your throat's blushing from passion or deceit.

And there isn't a thing but imagination and lies and deceit and tricks.

Did you not fear, in loyal deceit, to leave beside me, as though by chance, all accessories for my escape.

Penelope is still waiting for you. Treachery and deceit menace your home.

What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?

Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years. hath not yet dived into the world's deceit.

But warn him there must be no treachery or deceit.

I assure you, my lord, no deceit exists.

Marilla, deceit and collusion are completely out of tune with your character.

I am not, sir, accustomed to fraud and deceit.

I expect only this from you, deceit and treachery.

Trapped and strangling in a jungle of lies and deceit.

A brilliant record of rapacity, cruelty, torture, deceit and murder.

O Deceit!

Headmaster. In addition to stupidity and deceit, you add scandalous lechery!

Thank you, Adeline. Did you not fear, in loyal deceit, to leave beside me, as though by chance, all accessories for my escape.

Treachery and deceit menace your home.

I will not stand for deceit.

You will die for your deceit.

I assure you, my lord, no deceit exists. It is her wish to return to King Menelaus. -lt's her wish.

I thought that Favell was with her, and I knew then that I couldn't stand this life of filth and deceit any longer.

Afraid to be found out yet sick of deceit and lies.

Why, your father's incapable of deceit.

But among themselves, they have conspired to get weapons by deceit and cajolery to enslave us, to throw our lives away in a war of conquest.

If they try their deceit and cajolery on me, I will know how to deal with them.

And to think that if there ever was a woman created for every kind of deceit and vice, of betrayal and debauchery, she's the very one.

Sure, you took me by deceit.

But I don't want any more deceit, I want our life to be honest.

Be warned Marco - they will set us at each other's throats by lies and deceit, and then, when they have divided us, then they will destroy us one by one.

Anything is better than deceit.

All is deceit, all. evil.

News and current affairs

Nothing reveals the decline of the United States in the region better than the contrast between America's sober use of power in the first Gulf War in 1991 and the hubris and deceit of today's Iraq war.

So are both types of capitalism discredited by a mire of deceit and bankruptcy?

The Kuchma regime's vast wealth, stolen from ordinary Ukrainians, suggested that the reign of thuggery and deceit could go on forever.

Well-educated and successful, middle-class Russians have taken to the streets to gain respect from a Kremlin hierarchy that is mired in deceit and corruption.

The financial crisis provides an apparently endless opportunity for unmasking deceit, malfeasance, and corruption.

The British electorate would be better served if their politicians had the courage to serve up some uncomfortable truths - or at least not to deal in dangerous deceit.

Indeed, he has made it a regular feature of Russian foreign policy, which is characterized by deceit, bullying, violence, and the desire to restore the empire that was dismembered after the collapse of communism.