deceit
/dɪˈsiːt/ noun C1- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. · The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- 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.
Plural deceits
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Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.
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