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deceit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deception, misrepresentation |
| Type of | falsity, falsehood, untruth |
| Has types | window dressing, blind, dissembling, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, feigning, fraudulence, half-truth, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, humbug, jiggery-pokery, magnification, overstatement, pretence, pretense, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snake oil, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, bill of goods |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
| Type of | falsification, misrepresentation |
| Has types | impersonation, imposture, chicane, chicanery, delusion, indirection, double-dealing, simulation, duplicity, trickery, obscurantism, bluff, fakery, cheating, wile, illusion, shenanigan, cheat, take-in, feigning, four flush, pretence, guile, pretending, pretense, head game |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fraudulence |
| Type of | dishonesty |
Examples of deceit
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To Jim Tressel, who's still Ohio State's coach, for his expanding web of deceit.
From the freep.com
Why the silence, why the lack of challenge to this government's lies and deceit?
From the guardian.co.uk
Other elements revived from eye-witness accounts also indicate deceit by design.
From the nzherald.co.nz
He employs deceit, insults and ingratiating flattery in equal, copious portions.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The film creates a world where heroism and deceit spring from unexpected sources.
From the kansas.com
Accusations about lack of integrity, deceit and bias are flying thick and fast.
From the newscientist.com
When her deceit unravels and everything goes wrong, Thea has to set things right.
From the nytimes.com
Your integrity and transparency could offset the baggage of the founder's deceit.
From the nytimes.com
They're the source of the lies and deceit you're complaining about to begin with.
From the economist.com
- Fraudulence: the quality of being fraudulent
- Misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
- Deception: the act of deceiving
- (deceitful) intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
- (deceitful) ambidextrous: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M. ...
- Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment. ...
- Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was not released until 1923, it was shot in 1921.
- Unholy Love (released in the United Kingdom as Deceit) is a 1932 black-and-white drama film directed and produced by Albert Ray. It was the first film adaptation of the French novel Madame Bovary produced. ...
- Family Plot is a 1976 American dark comedy/thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his final film. It stars Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane, and Karen Black. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. ...
