deceit

in a sentence

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) Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried, 1990

She had plenty to say about deceit, distress, and sexually transmitted diseases.  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Crank, 2004

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) Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010

...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) Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War, 1974

I felt that you were false and deceitful.  (source) Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1905

Deceits of the mind.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

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) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, 1925

There's a lot a grudgefulness and deceitfulness.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

I disliked their laughter and their tears, their flattery and envy, conceit and deceit.  (source) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.  (source) Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, 1879

They are clever in their deceits, and their voices are wound with spells to ensnare you.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Hound of Rowan, 2007

Though true cylinders without—within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851