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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Infidelity :: Infidelity (n.) Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant..
Palaver :: Palaver (v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully..
Glossy :: Glossy (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit..
Double-eyed :: Double-eyed (a.) Having a deceitful look.
Ruse :: Ruse (n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist..
Deceitfulness :: Deceitfulness (n.) Tendency to mislead or deceive.
Knave :: Knave (n.) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain..
Show :: Show (n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.
False :: False (superl.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness..
Trumpery :: Trumpery (n.) Deceit; fraud.
False-hearted :: False-hearted (a.) Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
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.
Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
Trumpery :: Trumpery (n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish..
Imposturous :: Imposturous (a.) Impostrous; deceitful.
Cautelous :: Cautelous (a.) Crafty; deceitful; false.
Covin :: Covin (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.
Insincerity :: Insincerity (n.) The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard..
Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
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