Word Finder - deceit

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An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

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The whole conversation was merely a deceit.

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An act of deceiving someone.

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The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

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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.

Was the deceit worth it for their sake?

When playing card games, many people use deceit to trick their opponents.

Deceit is a tactic that requires dishonesty.

Using deceit is an excellent way to lose respect from other individuals.

Please do not use any deceit in your political campaign.

I would not trust someone any more if they tried to usedeceit on me.

It is very frowned upon for businesses to use deceit to gain customers.

Lies differ in type, incidence, magnitude and consequence, with many gradations of severity, from harmless exaggeration and embellishment of stories, to intentional and habitual deceit.

Tears burned her eyes as she thought of his deceit.

What I can't live with is your deceit.

Surely they were unaware of his deceit.

It abounds in error as to matters of fact, contradicts human experience, reason and morals, and is one tissue of folly, deceit, enthusiasm, selfishness and crime.

Doubtless the king's sore financial needs had much to do with the dissolution of the abbeys and the plundering of the shrines, but there is no reason to suppose that he was not fully convinced that the monks had long outlived their usefulness and that the shrines were centres of abject superstition and ecclesiastical deceit.

She was small to make such demands, but he had learned from years of watching his mistresses plot that even a small woman was capable of great manipulation, deceit, and power.

Item notes within this site aim for honesty and reliability and attempt to avoid hyperbole and deceit.

I abhorred the very idea of getting immersed in this tangle of deceit but even to a lesser extent did I want to see Howie hurt.

He is also prepared to use deceit to carry out this bombing.

It was all lies and deceit.

Frankly, it is suspicious and looks dishonorable, but the deceit supports the revised chronology even tho only by default.

Until we make a break with this sick past then the UK will sink further into a pit of lies deceit and treachery.

Looking at the severe pain I caused her and realizing something of the damage caused by deceit and sin was awful.

George Orwell once wrote ' Telling the truth in an age of universal deceit is a revolutionary act ' .

But to imagine workers are going to join New Labor in the midst or aftermath of the FBU dispute, is a cruel deceit.

Pantheism, indeed, is the great deceit which awaits the Age to come.

The military has deliberately misled the public through sophisticated word games, deceit and outright disinformation.

In an extraordinary career he often overstepped the mark into deceit.

What is more, the stability pact encourages deceit at the heart of European economic policy making.

And it is an enduring testament to the corruption, deceit and arrogance of this pitiful and mucky government.

He was reckless and unstable, resorting often to lying and deceit, and never pausing to count the cost of an enterprise or troubling to adapt means to ends.

Man seeks to influence his fellow men in various ways, by intimidation, by deceit, by bribery; and it is quite natural to find the same ideas in the sphere of religion.

What India wants (as Nobili 300 years ago saw, and attempted, though by fatal methods of deceit, to supply) is a Christianity not foreign but native, not dissociated from.

Unwilling to go, he feigned madness, ploughing a field sown with salt with an ox and an ass yoked together; but Palamedes discovered his deceit by placing his infant child Telemachus in front of the plough; Odysseus afterwards revenged himself by compassing the death of Palamedes.

To diplomacy he never pretended; persuasion and deceit were not the weapons he 1 See especially a Memoire presented to the king in 1666, published in the Lettres, Fee., de Colbert, vol.

Skipwith, a judge of the common pleas, cited a statute under which for any erasure in the rolls to the deceit of the king z oo marks fine was imposed for every penny, and so Wykeham owed 960,000 marks.

In Rabbinic sources he is called Bar (Ben) Coziba, "son of deceit," which perhaps reflects the later verdict of condemnation recorded after his failure (root "to be false").

He does not admit that Satan has any lawful claim on man, or that God practised a deceit on him, as later fathers taught.

Yardley was therefore liable in the tort of deceit.

A vicious cycle of deceit is too easily set up.

When preschool children do engage in intentional deceit, it is usually to avoid reprimand.

Early intervention in the case of compulsive lying may reduce the risk of the child developing a life-time habit of deceit.

In fact, this leads to infidelity due to the deceit, mistrust and intimacy blocker.

The dying race sought to exterminate the humans and used deception and deceit to accomplish this task.

In the modern series, the Cylons use deception and deceit because they look like humans.

In this world, two groups of powers confront each other in a truceless war, the powers of Good, of Light, of creative Strength, of Life and of Truth, and the powers of Evil, of Darkness, Destruction, Death and Deceit.

Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Investigations revealed deceit and dishonesty on the part of the Appellant.

And the charge of deliberate deceit is not without merit.

The system only works on the basis of systematic deceit.

Daniel was finding a way to move on at the same time Jack was finally recognizing his own ability for self deceit.

To rescue Merswin from the charge of deceit involved in this theory, Jundt puts forward the suggestion, more ingenious than convincing, that Merswin was a "double personality," who in his primary state wrote the books ascribed to him, and in his secondary state became "the Friend of God from the Oberland," writing the other treatises.