Deceit

English

Noun

Deceit (plural Deceits)

1. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick

   The whole conversation was merely a deceit.

2. An act of deceiving someone
3. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
4. (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.

Adjectives for Deceit

charming; dreamlike; dear; radiant; adored; coquettish; remorseful; blind; beguiling; unprincipled; fatal.

Verbs for Deceit

abhor—; avoid—; breed—; commit—; conceal—; contrive by—; depart from—; dispose to—; dwell in—; indulge in—; intend—; nourish—; quit—; redeem from—; shroud—; suspect—; unearth—; utter—; wallow in—; work—; annoys; — counters; —falsifies; —flourishes; —harms; —irks; —misleads; —pricks; —tricks; reprove—.

Synonyms for Deceit

• (act or behavior intended to deceive): trick, fraud
• (act of deceiving): deception, trickery
• (state of being deceptive): underhandedness, deceptiveness, deceitfulness, dissimulation, fraudulence, trickery
• falseness, duplicity, hypocrisy, untruth, sham, guile, cunning, treachery, imposition, delusion, artifice.

Antonyms for Deceit

truth, truthfulness, honor, honesty, uprightness, openness.

Derived terms

• deceitful

Thesaurus

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈsiːt/, SAMPA: /dI"si:t/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Translations

act or behavior intended to deceive

Bulgarian: измама (bg) f., лъжа (bg) f. Finnish: petosyritys (fi), petoksen (fi) yritys (fi); petos (fi), huiputus (fi), huijaus (fi), harhautus (fi), vilppi (fi) German: Betrügerei (de) f.

Hebrew: רמאות (he) (rama'üt) f. Hungarian: megtévesztés (hu) Korean: 속임수 (ko) (sogimsu); 사기 (ko) (sagi)

act or fact of deceiving

Finnish: huijaus (fi) German: Täuschung (de) f.

Hungarian: megtévesztés (hu) Korean: 속임수 (ko) (sogimsu)

state of being deceptive

Finnish: vilpillisyys (fi) German: Falschheit (de) f.

Hungarian: megtévesztő (hu) Korean: 기만 (ko) (giman)

legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact

Finnish: petos (fi)

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French: tromperie German: Täuschung (de) f., Betrug (de) m. Greek: απάτη (el) f. (apáti)

Italian: inganno, frode; Portuguese: engano, fraude; artificio Spanish: engaño