Definition of deceit

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Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..

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Patchingly :: Patchingly (adv.) Knavishy; deceitfully.
Covin :: Covin (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.
Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
Deceit :: Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..
Snaky :: Snaky (a.) Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.
Demagogue :: Demagogue (n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
Subtonic :: Subtly (adv.) Deceitfully; delusively.
Cosening :: Cosening (n.) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not..
Hollowly :: Hollowly (adv.) Insincerely; deceitfully.
Impostrous :: Impostrous (n.) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
Favel :: Favel (n.) Flattery; cajolery; deceit.
Insnare :: Insnare (v. t.) To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle..
Double-tongue :: Double-tongue (n.) Deceit; duplicity.
Chaunter :: Chaunter (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey..
Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..
Janus-faced :: Janus-faced (a.) Double-faced; deceitful.
Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it..
Cautelous :: Cautelous (a.) Crafty; deceitful; false.
Trumpery :: Trumpery (n.) Deceit; fraud.
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