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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
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