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Definitions for Deceit

[1] the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating: Once she exposed their deceit, no one ever trusted them again.
[2] an act or device intended to deceive; trick; stratagem.
[3] the quality of being deceitful; duplicity; falseness: a man full of deceit.
[4] the act or practice of deceiving
[5] a statement, act, or device intended to mislead; fraud; trick
[6] a tendency to deceive

Words related to Deceit

fraud, deception, trickery, duplicity, hypocrisy, dishonesty, chicanery, treachery, hoax, subterfuge, misrepresentation, double-dealing, imposition, guile, craft, cheating, slyness, artifice, craftiness, deceitfulness

Words nearby Deceit

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Origin of Deceit

1225–75; Middle English deceite < Anglo-French, Old French, noun use of feminine of deceit, past participle of deceivre to deceive

Other words from Deceit

non·de·ceit , noun

Word origin for Deceit

C13: from Old French deceite, from deceivre to deceive

Synonyms for Deceit

chicanery, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, fraud, hypocrisy, treachery, trickery, ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, dissimulation, double-dealing, fraudulence, guile, imposition, pretense, slyness, trapping, cozening, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dissemblance, entrapping, overreaching, smoke and mirrors, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness