Sample Sentences fordeceit (auto-selected)
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At least we don't have the deceit to say to 'em yes you're as good as we are but stay away from us. (source)deceit = the act of lying (not telling the truth)
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If Rat told you, for example, that he'd slept with four girls one night, you could figure it was about a girl and a half. It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite: he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt. (source)deceit = lying to or misleading someone
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If that is done without deceit, then we will depart, and the elf-host will go back to the Forest. (source)deceit = lying to or misleading others
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Who's more important —your father, or a deceitful goddess who used you, toyed with your emotions, manipulated your memories, eh? (source)deceitful = misleading or not trustworthy
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...and weary of his deceit, and haunted by the fear that his mother would find the magazine, Jerry had sneaked it out of the house and dropped it into a catchbasin. (source)deceit = deception (lying to or misleading someone)
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I disliked their laughter and their tears, their flattery and envy, conceit and deceit. (source)deceit = acts of lying or misleading
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On June 10, 1965, its Medical Grievance Committee found Southam and Mandel guilty of "fraud or deceit and unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine" and recommended that their medical licenses be suspended for one year. (source)deceit = lying to or misleading others
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I felt that you were false and deceitful. (source)deceitful = misleading or not trustworthy
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Deceits of the mind.† (source)
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Though true cylinders without—within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.† (source)
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There's a lot a grudgefulness and deceitfulness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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And that cultivates deceit, for I don't tell them I'm awake—O no! (source)deceit = act of lying to or misleading someone
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother. (source)deceitful = not trustworthy
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I have no need nor desire to learn the magical deceits of his decrepit race!† (source)
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Like Dohmler's it was of the modern type—no longer a single dark and sinister building but a small, scattered, yet deceitfully integrated village—Dick and Nicole had added much in the domain of taste, so that the plant was a thing of beauty, visited by every psychologist passing through Zurich.† (source)
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For that singular craft at times evinced by the Sperm Whale when, sounding with his head in one direction, he nevertheless, while concealed beneath the surface, mills round, and swiftly swims off in the opposite quarter—this deceitfulness of his could not now be in action; for there was no reason to suppose that the fish seen by Tashtego had been in any way alarmed, or indeed knew at all of our vicinity.† (source)
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