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“I was truly appalled by the realization of the deceit involved,” Bradlee wrote.

Just like a Law & Order episode, the Mississippi Senate race has featured felonies, courtroom drama, lies, and deceit.

For years now, deceit has been an institutional norm in facilities across the VA.

He lines his pockets when opportunities arise, and gets ahead of domestic rivals by craft and deceit.

But these two pillars of support for lethal injection have always been based on a form of deceit.

This is one of the fundamentals in that large class of cases growing out of deceit.

As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.

The party seeking redress, must have been deceived, and also injured by the deceit in order to recover.

Thus, where such pure, noble feelings do not exist, the mere forms of politeness become hypocrisy and deceit.

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On this page you'll find 164 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deceit, such as: chicanery, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, fraud, and hypocrisy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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