Deceit

Noun

 * 1) An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
 * The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
 * 1) An act of deceiving someone
 * 2)  The state of being deceitful or deceptive
 * 3)  The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
 * 1)  The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
 * 1)  The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.

Adjectives for Deceit
charming; dreamlike; dear; radiant; adored; coquettish; remorseful; blind; beguiling; unprincipled; fatal.

Verbs for Deceit
abhor—; avoid—; breed—; commit—; conceal—; contrive by—; depart from—; dispose to—; dwell in—; indulge in—; intend—; nourish—; quit—; redeem from—; shroud—; suspect—; unearth—; utter—; wallow in—; work—; annoys; — counters; —falsifies; —flourishes; —harms; —irks; —misleads; —pricks; —tricks; reprove—.

Synonyms for Deceit

 * trick, fraud
 * deception, trickery
 * underhandedness, deceptiveness, deceitfulness, dissimulation, fraudulence, trickery
 * falseness, duplicity, hypocrisy, untruth, sham, guile, cunning, treachery, imposition, delusion, artifice.

Antonyms for Deceit
truth, truthfulness, honor, honesty, uprightness, openness.

Derived terms

 * deceitful

Thesaurus
art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, blind, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, con game, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, craftiness, cunning, cute trick, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, design, device, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, expedient, fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, feint, fetch, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, furtiveness, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, guile, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, humbug, hypocrisy, indirection, insidiousness, intrigue, jugglery, knavery, little game, maneuver, misrepresentation, monkey business, move, overreaching, plot, ploy, racket, red herring, ruse, scam, scheme, sell, sham, shift, shiftiness, sleight, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, swindle, tactic, trapping, treacherousness, treachery, trick, trickery, underhandedness, wile, wily device

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, ; , huiputus, , , vilppi
 * German: Betrügerei


 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: megtévesztés
 * Korean: 속임수; 사기


 * Finnish: huijaus
 * German:


 * Hungarian: megtévesztés
 * Korean: 속임수


 * Finnish: vilpillisyys
 * German: Falschheit


 * Hungarian: megtévesztő
 * Korean:


 * Finnish:


 * : tromperie
 * : απάτη (apáti)
 * : απάτη (apáti)


 * : inganno, frode;
 * : engano, fraude; artificio
 * : engaño