deceit
41deceit — noun the action or practice of deceiving. ↘a deceitful act or statement. Origin ME: from OFr., past participle of deceveir deceive …
42deceit — n. Deception, fraud, imposition, imposture, finesse, artifice, duplicity, guile, trickery, chicanery, cozenage, cheating, double dealing, crooked ways, dark ways, underhandedness, deceitfulness …
43deceit — n 1. deception, dissimulation, hypocrisy, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane, trickery; jugglery, trumpery, dupery, hocus pocus, fraudulence, shenanigan; craft, wiles, guile, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle,… …
44deceit — de·ceit …
45deceit — noun Syn: deception, deceitfulness, duplicity, double dealing, lies, fraud, cheating, trickery Ant: honesty …
46deceit — [dɪˈsiːt] noun [C/U] dishonest behaviour that is intended to trick someone …
47deceit — /dəˈsit / (say duh seet) noun 1. the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or perversion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; fraud; cheating. 2. an act or device intended to deceive; a trick; stratagem. 3. deceiving quality; falseness …
48deceit — Imi epa, apa apa, nolu. See deceive, deceitful …
49deceit — A species of fraud; any false representation or contrivance whereby one person overreaches and misleads another to the hurt of the latter. Walter v State, 208 Ind 231, 195 NE 268, 98 ALR 607 …
50deceit — n. 1 the act or process of deceiving or misleading, esp. by concealing the truth. 2 a dishonest trick or stratagem. 3 willingness to deceive. Etymology: ME f. OF f. past part. of deceveir f. L decipere deceive (as DE , capere take) …
