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deceit

/dɪˈsiːt/ sustantivo C1

En español: bellaquería, fraude, engaño, embeleco

  1. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. (countable, uncountable) · The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
  2. An act of deceiving someone. (countable, uncountable)
  3. The state of being deceitful or deceptive. (uncountable)
  4. 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. (countable, uncountable)

Plural deceits

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Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 17 · B2
There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1056 · C1

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