deceit

Example Sentences

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“At the end, when he’s on the beach, the hair dye just starts running down his face, exposing the deceit at the heart of Bogarde’s character,” Lowery said.

From New York Times

Satire is uniquely suited to combat abuses or power, political folly, deceit, and deception and that is because when the world is absurd, it takes absurd forms of communication to make it easy to see.

From Salon

He died as he lived, in a miasma of mystery carrying a whiff of violence, death and deceit.

From New York Times

I think you know whether he’s capable of deceit.

From Washington Post

Roiland, 43, had been awaiting trial on charges of corporal injury and false imprisonment by menace, fraud, violence or deceit against the woman, who he was living with at the time.

From Seattle Times