Meaning of DECEIT
| Pronunciation: | | di'seet
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- [n] the act of deceiving
- [n] the quality of being fraudulent
- [n] a misleading falsehood
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| | Synonyms: | | deception, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, fraudulence, misrepresentation |
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| | See Also: | | blind, bluff, cheat, cheating, chicanery, delusion, dishonesty, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicity, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, fakery, false statement, falsehood, falsification, falsity, feigning, feigning, four flush, fraudulence, guile, half-truth, hanky panky, head game, hocus-pocus, illusion, impersonation, imposture, indirection, jiggery-pokery, magnification, misrepresentaation, obscurantism, overstatement, pretence, pretence, pretending, pretense, pretense, shenanigan, simulation, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, trickery, untruth, wile, window dressing | |
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| | Definition: | | Deceit
Ellen`s husband, a former MP, missing at sea, has finally been declared drowned, and she must cope with the aftermath, which includes revelations about her husband that include fraud, sexual abuse, and political corruption. Ellen begins to wonder if he has committed suicide, but the police start talking murder--and thinking of Ellen as not only a grieving widow but a suspect. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*ceit"\, n. [OF. deceit, des[,c]ait, decept (cf.
deceite, de[,c]oite), fr. L. deceptus deception, fr.
decipere. See {Deceive}.]
1. 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.
Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and
falsifying the balances by deceit. --Amos viii.
5.
Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. --Milton.
Yet still we hug the dear deceit. --N. Cotton.
2. (Law) 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.
Syn: Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity; trickery;
guile; falsifying; double-dealing; stratagem. See
{Deception}.
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| | Related Terms: | | art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, blind, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, con game, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, craftiness, cunning, cute trick, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, design, device, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, expedient, fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, feint, fetch, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, furtiveness, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, guile, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, humbug, hypocrisy, indirection, insidiousness, intrigue, jugglery, knavery, little game, maneuver, misrepresentation, monkey business, move, overreaching, plot, ploy, racket, red herring, ruse, scam, scheme, sell, sham, shift, shiftiness, sleight, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, swindle, tactic, trapping, treacherousness, treachery, trick, trickery, underhandedness, wile, wily device |
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