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deceit

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  • nounpractice of misleading
  • nounparticular type of trick, misleading

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
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antonyms for deceit

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  • fairness
  • forthrightness
  • frankness
  • honesty
  • openness
  • sincerity
  • trustworthiness
  • truth
  • truthfulness
  • artlessness
  • reality
  • uprightness
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How to use deceit in a sentence

To the extent Neanderthals were like us, they must have been capable of acts of great kindness and empathy, but also cruelty, violence, and deceit.
WOULD WE STILL SEE OURSELVES AS ‘HUMAN’ IF OTHER HOMININ SPECIES HADN’T GONE EXTINCT?NICHOLAS R. LONGRICHOCTOBER 21, 2021SINGULARITY HUB 
Petzold loves his romantic bargains, his meditations on longing, obsession and deceit, and he unfurls all of that seductive cloth of gold in Undine.
IN THE NOIRISH MODERN FAIRYTALE UNDINE, A MERMAID AND A MAN FIND HAPPINESS—FOR NOWSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKMAY 28, 2021TIME
His deceit was wide-ranging and unsettling, and prompted questions within the publishing industry about authorship, privilege and identity.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW AS THE MOVIE ADAPTATION HITS NETFLIXANNABEL GUTTERMANMAY 14, 2021TIME
He explains the phenomenon of deceit in general, and self-deception in particular, with the same plain language and gentle authority that his listeners have come to rely on.
WE’RE CONSTANTLY FOOLING OURSELVES — AND THAT’S (MOSTLY) OKAYKATIE HAFNERMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The Washington Post’s examination of a private conservative gathering included numerous appeals from presenters to this alleged threat looming over the country, a threat manifested in fraud, deceit and civil unrest.
FIVE FALSEHOODS SPURRING REPUBLICAN CONCERN ABOUT THE ELECTIONPHILIP BUMPOCTOBER 15, 2020WASHINGTON POST
This is one of the fundamentals in that large class of cases growing out of deceit.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY
The party seeking redress, must have been deceived, and also injured by the deceit in order to recover.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
Thus, where such pure, noble feelings do not exist, the mere forms of politeness become hypocrisy and deceit.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY
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WORDS RELATED TO DECEIT

  • deceit
  • deception
  • dishonesty
  • disingenuousness
  • double-dealing
  • hypocrisy
  • phoniness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.