Definition of deceit

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Deceit (n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation..

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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..
Cautel :: Cautel (n.) Craft; deceit; falseness.
Hollow :: Hollow (a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend..
Malengine :: Malengine (n.) Evil machination; guile; deceit.
Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Wileful :: Wileful (a.) Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.
Impostrous :: Impostrous (n.) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
Fraudulent :: Fraudulent (a.) Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.
Deceit :: Deceit (n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation..
Culpa :: Culpa (n.) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart..
Deceitfulness :: Deceitfulness (n.) The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual..
Hollowly :: Hollowly (adv.) Insincerely; deceitfully.
Chaunter :: Chaunter (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey..
Illusive :: Illusive (a.) Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.
Losengerie :: Losengerie (n.) Flattery; deceit; trickery.
Trumpery :: Trumpery (n.) Deceit; fraud.
Guile :: Guile (n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
False-hearted :: False-hearted (a.) Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
Double Dealer :: Double dealer () One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person..
Deceitless :: Deceitless (a.) Free from deceit.
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