deceit

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It seemed to her that a silence fell on the crowd, as if her deceit were already discovered.

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  1. noun The act or practice of deceiving; deception.
  2. noun A stratagem; a trick.
  3. noun The quality of being deceitful; falseness.

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  • This deceit, which is an average specimen of the beginning of half-caste dealings, vitiates his evidence of a specimen of cannibalism which he witnessed; but it was after a fight that the victims were cut up, and this agrees with the fact that the Manyuema eat only those who are killed in war. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • You are engaging in deceit which is a well know liberal trait. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • They involve deceit, which is the essence of fraud. —  Latest Articles
  • Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • If you're not getting at least a small piece of the $100 million that Al Gore is making for his deceit, then you're really being taken for a ride. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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deception ·  duplicity ·  treachery ·  dishonesty ·  hypocrisy ·  trickery ·  guile ·  fraud ·  meanness ·  malice ·  artifice ·  avarice
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English deceite, from Old French, from past participle of deceveir, to deceive; see deceive.

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  1. Early modern English also deceite, deceyte, deceete, deceipt, etc.; from Middle English deceite, deceyte, desceit, disceyte, dissayte, dessayte, etc., from Old French deceite, deceyte, deçoite, deçoitte, dechoite, decepte, feminine, deceit, desçait, decept, masculine, deceit, from Latin deceptus, deceit, from decipere, deceive: see deceive, deception. Cf. conceit, receipt.
 

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