deceit

Definition of deceit in English English dictionary: An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
The whole conversation was merely a deceit.; The state of being deceitful or deceptive; An act of deceiving someone; The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury; falsehood; the act of deceiving; {n} treachery, cheat, artifice, pretence; 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; {i} deception, trickery, cheating; Any 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; 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; Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another; the quality of being fraudulent; a misleading falsehood; Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true. They have been involved in a campaign of deceit. = deception. behaviour that is intended to make someone believe something that is not true (decipere; DECEIVE); When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation; cautel; shuck and jive
deceitful: deceptive in multiple ways
deceitfully: with the intention to deceive
deceitfully: in a deceitful manner
deceitful: fraudulent
deceitfulness: fraudulence
deceitful: {a} full of deceit, treacherous, false, base
deceitfully: {a} in a deceitful manner, falsely
deceitfulness: {n} a tendency to deceive, deceit
Deceitful: braid
Deceitfully: doubly
deceitful: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice"
deceitful: deliberately misleading or cheating
deceitful: Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere
deceitful: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S T Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
deceitful: {s} deceptive, dishonest
deceitful: - S
deceitful: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S
deceitful: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W M Thackeray
deceitful: If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true. The ambassador called the report deceitful and misleading. someone who is deceitful tells lies in order to get what they want
deceitful: Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes
deceitfully: With intent to deceive
deceitfully: in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend"
deceitfully: deceptively, dishonestly
deceitfulness: The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices
deceitfulness: The state or quality of being deceitful
deceitfulness: the quality of being crafty
deceitfulness: The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual
deceitfulness: {i} dishonesty, falseness
deceitfulness: Tendency to mislead or deceive
deceits: plural of deceit
self-deceit: a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it