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  • noun Plural form of deceit.

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Examples

  • Paul of Alexandria: This whole process has been full of lies and deceits from the very beginning, at the start of the 20th century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review? 2010

  • This whole process has been full of lies and deceits from the very beginning, at the start of the 20th century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review? 2010

  • Sarcastro: Paul of Alexandria: This whole process has been full of lies and deceits from the very beginning, at the start of the 20th century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review? 2010

  • As I have documented before, these most vocal war supporters are pursuing the only course of option open to them other than accepting responsibility for their grave errors and deceits, which is far too honorable and forthright to make it a real option for them.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • The way in which the Abu Grahib abuses were dismissed as the isolated, rogue acts of a few deranged low-level soldiers is one of the administration's worst deceits, which is saying a great deal.

    American values under the Bush administration Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • As I have documented before, these most vocal war supporters are pursuing the only course of option open to them other than accepting responsibility for their grave errors and deceits, which is far too honorable and forthright to make it a real option for them.

    Letting Zarqawi go -- a pathological refusal to accept responsibility Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • The way in which the Abu Grahib abuses were dismissed as the isolated, rogue acts of a few deranged low-level soldiers is one of the administration's worst deceits, which is saying a great deal.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • These receipts at this season of the year may more properly be called deceits; but if a work is in any degree successful it often becomes a little feast for the author.

    Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2 Wallace, Lady 1866

  • Haggard's betrayal, his lies, his compulsions, his deceits are the excruciating function of this human dead end.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2009

  • The blasphemous other-worldliness of the false mystic who conceives of matter as an evil thing and flies from its "deceits," is corrected by this loving sight.

    Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915

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  • From the Twitter feed:

    Our nations are ruled by the Elites

    They're driving us into the streets

    Stealing our voices

    And limiting choices

    A few of their many deceits

    - @TheLimerickKing

    May 10, 2016

  • He might be the King but does he realise qms is Lord of the Universe?

    May 10, 2016

  • bilby flatters me outrageously - a practice I encourage at every opportunity. As to The Limerick King - self-anointed royals tread a perilous path:

    The "King" should eschew boastful ways.
    The rhyming gift visits but strays.
    We surely will stumble
    So, best we be humble
    And wait until others give praise.

    May 11, 2016