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Definition of Deceit
1. Noun. The quality of being fraudulent.
2. Noun. A misleading falsehood.
Specialized synonyms: Bill Of Goods, Humbug, Snake Oil, Half-truth, Facade, Window Dressing, Exaggeration, Magnification, Overstatement, Snow Job, Dissembling, Feigning, Pretence, Pretense, Blind, Subterfuge, Hanky Panky, Hocus-pocus, Jiggery-pokery, Skulduggery, Skullduggery, Slickness, Trickery, Duplicity, Fraudulence, Equivocation, Evasion
Generic synonyms: Falsehood, Falsity, Untruth
Derivative terms: Deceive, Misrepresent, Misrepresent
3. Noun. The act of deceiving.
Generic synonyms: Falsification, Misrepresentation
Specialized synonyms: Fakery, Indirection, Chicane, Chicanery, Guile, Shenanigan, Trickery, Wile, Double-dealing, Duplicity, Cheat, Cheating, Delusion, Head Game, Illusion, Feigning, Pretence, Pretending, Pretense, Simulation, Impersonation, Imposture, Obscurantism, Bluff, Four Flush, Take-in
Derivative terms: Deceive, Deceive, Dissimulate
Definition of Deceit
1. 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.
Definition of Deceit
1. Noun. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick ¹
2. Noun. An act of deceiving someone ¹
3. Noun. The state of being deceitful or deceptive ¹
4. Noun. (legal) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deceit
1. the act of deceiving [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deceit
Literary usage of Deceit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"deceit is always a personal act, and if there be an habitual propensity to
deceiving, the deceit is then a characteristic of the person ; a deceiver is full ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Gay Wood (1876)
"False representation of authority — Pretended agency — deceit by agents. 1197.
... deceit by provision-dealers in selling unwholesome food. 1204. ..."
3. An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius by Francis Buller, Henry Bathurst Bathurst (1790)
"CHAPTER I. Of deceit. * Danv. 545. TP\ ECE 1 T properly lies where one man does
any thin£ JL-X in the name of another, by which the other is damaged and ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"Logically, the consideration of the case thus presented divides itself into two
separate, but intimately related, phases—the first, the deceit practised in ..."
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