deceit.
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
Meaning & usage
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.
A group of lapwings.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English deceyte, from Old French deceite, deçoite, from decevoir (“to deceive”), from Latin dēcipere (“to cheat, mislead”).
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