deceit (Meaning)
deceit (n)
the quality of being fraudulent
a misleading falsehood
the act of deceiving
deceit (n.)
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
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.
Synonyms & Antonyms of deceit
Synonyms:
- lying
- double-dealing
- fakery
- cunningness
- dishonesty
- craftiness
- dissimulation
- guile
- crookedness
- crookery
- duplicity
- dissembling
- cozenage
- secrecy
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- wiliness
- legerdemain
- sneakiness
- prevarication
- untruth
- mendacity
- fraudulence
- unscrupulousness
- craft
- caginess
- underhandedness
- falsity
- two-facedness
- hanky-panky
- guilefulness
- equivocation
- jugglery
- artfulness
- obliquity
- chicanery
- sanctimoniousness
- chicane
- shadiness
- subterfuge
- skulduggery
- foxiness
- insincerity
- shrewdness
- hypocrisy
- swindling
- mountebankery
- treacherousness
- deviousness
- slyness
- wile
- artifice
- fib
- dupery
- skullduggery
- shiftiness
- trickery
- furtiveness
- covertness
- falsehood
- slipperiness
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word deceit
the quality of being fraudulent, a misleading falsehood, the act of deceivingAn attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice,
deceptiveness, cunning, cheating, deceitfulness,deception, fraud,lying, double-dealing, fakery, cunningness
ingenuousness, frankness, openness, artlessness, directness, sincerity, frankness, honesty, forthrightness, artlessness
The businessman's deceit was uncovered when auditors found discrepancies in the financial records.
She felt a deep sense of betrayal upon discovering her friend's deceit.
The politician's campaign was marred by accusations of deceit and dishonesty.
Trust is easily broken by acts of deceit, tarnishing relationships irreparably.
