Deceit

[dɪ'siːt] or [dɪ'sit]

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Deception, fraud, imposition, imposture, finesse, artifice, duplicity, guile, trickery, cozenage, cheating, double dealing.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Cheat, imposition, trick, fraud, deception, double_dealing, delusion,circumvention, guile, bewilderment, treachery, sham, insidiousness,indirection, duplicity, cunning, artifice

ANT:Enlightenment, instruction, guidance, reality, verily, Fair-dealing, honesty,openness

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Definition

n. act of deceiving: anything intended to mislead another: fraud: falseness.—adj. Deceit′ful full of deceit: disposed or tending to deceive: insincere.—adv. Deceit′fully.—n. Deceit′fulness.

Typist: Nelda