deceit in English

noun

1

the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth.

a web of deceit

synonyms: deception, deceitfulness, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, cheating, trickery, chicanery, deviousness, slyness, wiliness, guile, bluff, lying, pretense, treachery, crookedness, monkey business, monkeyshines, sham, fraud, pretense, hoax, fake, blind, artifice, trick, stratagem, device, ruse, scheme, dodge, machination, deception, subterfuge, cheat, swindle, con, setup, scam, flimflam, bunco

noun

deception, deceitfulness, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, cheating, trickery, chicanery, deviousness, slyness, wiliness, guile, bluff, lying, pretense, treachery, crookedness, monkey business, monkeyshines
sham, fraud, pretense, hoax, fake, blind, artifice, trick, stratagem, device, ruse, scheme, dodge, machination, deception, subterfuge, cheat, swindle, con, setup, scam, flimflam, bunco
deception, dissembling, dissimulation
deception, misrepresentation
fraudulence

Use "deceit" in a sentence

1. Deceit.

2. • Deceit: “Infidelity usually involves deceit, and deceit, pure and simple, is a betrayal of trust.

3. The children of deceit,+

4. He is full of deceit.

5. He got the money by deceit.

6. She won her promotion by deceit.

7. After this -- this deceit and foolery?

8. That deceit won't pass with me.

9. Conveyances based on fraud or deceit

10. But a false witness speaks deceit.

11. Nor will my tongue mutter deceit!

12. He is above meanness and deceit.

13. He was accused of lies and deceit.

14. With Harry, omission was tantamount to deceit.

15. The trader was truthful and without deceit.

16. He would have no truck with deceit.

17. It's all built on lies and deceit.

18. 6 The trader was truthful and without deceit.

19. A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.

20. When we were young, my deceit was subtle.

21. Now deceit carries on through the plant kingdom.

22. Everyone was involved in this web of deceit.

23. 11 With Harry, omission was tantamount to deceit.

24. Police officers uncovered an intricate web of deceit.

25. Their marriage was an illusion and a deceit.

26. Underneath his politeness, there was deceit and cunning.

27. 11 The trader was truthful and without deceit.

28. The boy's deceit made his mother very unhappy.

29. As a noun Blench is a deceit; a trick.

30. What does Aboveboard mean? Without deceit or trickery; straightforward

31. We no longer have time for mistrust or deceit.

32. Our marriage was poisoned by mistrust, deceit and jealousy.

33. An eight-year-old girl who's full of deceit!

34. They have been involved in a campaign of deceit.

35. But sooner or later their own deceit will destroy them.

36. To lay trust in one stitched of lies and deceit.

37. He was enmeshed in a web of deceit and lies.

38. 14 synonyms for Collusion: conspiracy, intrigue, deceit, complicity, connivance, secret

39. The whole story was a farrago of lies and deceit.

40. They are prophets of the deceit of their own heart.

41. And so the game of deceit and double-dealing continued.

42. 17 Bread gained by deceit tastes good to a man,

43. Any other parties must be able to allege fraud or deceit.

44. More and more people were drawn into his web of deceit.

45. 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot mischief,

46. 8 He was enmeshed in a web of deceit and lies.

47. They accused him of weaving a web of lies and deceit.

48. Visions of a bloody future of deceit and death - the apocalypse.

49. Anything is better than lies and deceit! Leo Tolstoy 

50. Most people enjoy reading about deceit and dishonesty in high places.