Definition for

deceit

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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.

noun – In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another: now more commonly called fraud or misrepresentation.

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.

noun – 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.

noun – An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick

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