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deceit
English
Alternative forms
- deceipt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English deceyte, from Old French deceite, deçoite, from decevoir (“to deceive”), from Latin d?cipere (“to cheat, mislead”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??si?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Noun
deceit (plural deceits)
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- (law) 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.
Synonyms
- (act or behavior intended to deceive): trick, fraud
- (act of deceiving): deception, trickery
- (state of being deceptive): underhandedness, deceptiveness, deceitfulness, dissimulation, fraudulence, trickery
- See also Thesaurus:deception
Derived terms
- deceitful
Translations
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