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the act of lying to or misleading someone

deceit = the act of lying to or misleading someone

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

deceit = the act of lying (not telling the truth)

I disliked their laughter and their tears, their flattery and envy, conceit and deceit.
Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea

deceit = the act of deceiving (lying to others or misleading them)

She had plenty to say about deceit, distress, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

deceit = the act of lying to or misleading someone

I felt that you were false and deceitful.
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest

deceitful = misleading or not trustworthy

And that cultivates deceit, for I don't tell them I'm awake—O no!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

deceit = the act of lying to or misleading someone

deceitful = not trustworthy

...maybe because she felt the same way about tears she did about deceit, hating herself for doing it,
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

deceit = misleading others

Who's more important —your father, or a deceitful goddess who used you, toyed with your emotions, manipulated your memories, eh?
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

deceitful = misleading or not trustworthy

There were no conditions, no vices, no lies, no deceit, no manipulation.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

deceit = the act of lying to or misleading someone

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House

deceitful = not trustworthy

Cyclopes are the most deceitful, treacherous-
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters

deceitful = misleading or not trustworthy

...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.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

deceit = deception (lying to or misleading someone)

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.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

deceit = lying to or misleading others

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.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

deceit = lying to or misleading someone

It's the deceit of it that hurts me.
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville -- Uneasy Money
O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!
Shakespeare, William -- Romeo and Juliet
Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina

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