Definition for
deceit
noun – The quality of being false or misleading; falseness; falsehood; deception; deceptiveness.
noun – The act or practice of deceiving; concealment or perversion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; fraud; cheating.
noun – That which deceives; action or speech designed to mislead or beguile; a guileful artifice.
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In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another: now more commonly called
noun – 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.
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Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an
noun –
An act or practice intended to
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