Both Uses of
deceit
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- It was a hard matter to preserve the innocent deceit of which they were profoundly unsuspicious.†
Chpt 2.24
Definition:
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(deceit) the act of lying to or misleading someone