About The Word Deceit
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Deceit Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Deceit?
[n] the act of deceiving
[n] the quality of being fraudulent [n] a misleading falsehood Synonyms | Synonyms for Deceit: deception | deception | dissembling | dissimulation | fraudulence | misrepresentation Related Terms | Find terms related to Deceit: art | artful dodge | artfulness | artifice | blind | cheating | chicane | chicanery | con | con game | conspiracy | contrivance | coup | craft | craftiness | cunning | cute trick | deceitfulness | deception | defrauding | design | device | dishonesty | dissemblance | dissimulation | dodge | double-cross | double-dealing | duplicity | expedient | fakement | falseheartedness | falseness | feint | fetch | flam | flimflam | fraud | fraudulence | furtiveness | gambit | game | gimmick | grift | guile | gyp | hanky-panky | hoax | humbug | hypocrisy | indirection | insidiousness | intrigue | jugglery | knavery | little game | maneuver | misrepresentation | monkey business | move | overreaching | plot | ploy | racket | red herring | ruse | scam | scheme | sell | sham | shift | shiftiness | sleight | slyness | sneak attack | sneakiness | stratagem | strategy | subterfuge | surreptitiousness | swindle | tactic | trapping | treacherousness | treachery | trick | trickery | underhandedness | wile | wily device See Also | blind | bluff | cheat | cheating | chicanery | delusion | dishonesty | dissembling | double-dealing | duplicity | duplicity | equivocation | evasion | exaggeration | facade | fakery | false statement | falsehood | falsification | falsity | feigning | feigning | four flush | fraudulence | guile | half-truth | hanky panky | head game | hocus-pocus | illusion | impersonation | imposture | indirection | jiggery-pokery | magnification | misrepresentaation | obscurantism | overstatement | pretence | pretence | pretending | pretense | pretense | shenanigan | simulation | skulduggery | skullduggery | slickness | snow job | subterfuge | trickery | trickery | untruth | wile | window dressing Deceit In Webster's Dictionary \De*ceit"\, n. [OF. deceit, des[,c]ait, decept (cf.
deceite, de[,c]oite), fr. L. deceptus deception, fr.
decipere. See {Deceive}.]
1. An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error;
any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads
another, or causes him to believe what is false; a
contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and
falsifying the balances by deceit. --Amos viii.
5.
Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. --Milton.
Yet still we hug the dear deceit. --N. Cotton.
2. (Law) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false
representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud
another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of
deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
Syn: Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity; trickery;
guile; falsifying; double-dealing; stratagem. See
{Deception}.
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