Canadian English Meaning of deceit
deceit
Other Canadian English words related to deceit
- cheating
- cunning
- deceitfulness
- deception
- deceptiveness
- fraud
- swindling
- craftiness
- crookedness
- dishonesty
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- Double-dealing
- Duplicity
- fakery
- guile
- lying
- secrecy
- crookery
- Cunningness
- artfulness
- artifice
- Chicane
- chicanery
- covertness
- craft
- deviousness
- trickery
- Equivocation
- falsehood
- falsity
- fib
- foxiness
- fraud
- Furtiveness
- Insincerity
- juggling
- Sleight of hand
- lie
- mountebankery
- Obliquity
- prevarication
- sanctimoniousness ** _
- shady
- sneakiness
- shrewdness
- Skullduggery
- skulduggery
- slipperiness
- cunning
- sneakiness
- trickery
- Unscrupulous
- untruth
- wile
- cunning
- cageyness
- Guilefulness
- hanky-panky
- scam
- treachery
- two-faced
- Underhandedness
- artlessness
- Candour
- directness
- forthrightness
- frankness
- good faith
- honesty
- Ingenuousness
- openness
- sincerity
- candour
- dependability
- goodness
- integrity
- plainness
- Probity
- Reliability
- righteousness
- solidity
- trustworthiness
- truthfulness
- guilelessness
- decency
- incorruptibility
- reliability
- Trustworthiness
- uprightness
- Virtuousness
- plainspokenness
- trustworthiness
Nearest Words of deceit
Definitions and Meaning of deceit in English
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.
FAQs About the word deceit
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,
cheating,cunning,deceitfulness,deception,deceptiveness,fraud,swindling,craftiness,crookedness,dishonesty
artlessness,Candour,directness ,forthrightness,frankness,good faith,honesty,Ingenuousness,openness,sincerity
decedent => deceased, deceasing => deceased, deceased person => deceased person, deceased => deceased, decease => death,
