Deceit

Quick meaning: Deceit is a noun meaning An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

Meaning

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

More Meanings

1. An act of deceiving someone.
2. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
3. (law) 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.

Example Sentences

The whole conversation was merely a deceit.

Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father.

His mouth is full of curſing, and deceit, and fraud : vnder his tongue is miſchiefe and vanitie.

[T]he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.

Word Forms

• deceits
• deceipt

Synonyms for deceit

Depending on context, synonyms include deceitfulness, deceptiveness, dissimulation, duplicity, fraudulence, fraudulency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fraudulence, dissembling, dissimulation, deception, misrepresentation, trickery.

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