deceit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈsiːt/, X-SAMPA: /dI"si:t/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

deceit (plural deceits)

1. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick

   The whole conversation was merely a deceit.

2. An act of deceiving someone
   • 1998, Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page 125:

     Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father.

3. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
   • 1611, “Psalms 10:7”, in King James Bible:

     His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

4. (law) 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.

Synonyms

• (act or behavior intended to deceive): trick, fraud
• (act of deceiving): deception, trickery
• (state of being deceptive): underhandedness, deceptiveness, deceitfulness, dissimulation, fraudulence, trickery
• See also Wikisaurus:deception

Derived terms

• deceitful

Translations

act or behavior intended to deceive

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: измама (bg) (izmama) f, лъжа (bg) (lǎža) f
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: petosyritys (fi), petoksen (fi) yritys (fi); petos (fi), huiputus (fi), huijaus (fi), harhautus (fi), vilppi (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Betrügerei (de) f
• Greek: απάτη (el) (apáti) f
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can

• Hebrew: רמאות (he) (rama'üt) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: megtévesztés (hu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 속임수 (ko) (sogimsu); 사기 (ko) (sagi)
• Oriya: ତଞ୍ଚକତା (or) (tañcakatā)
• Russian: обма́н (ru) (obmán) m
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can

act or fact of deceiving

• Finnish: huijaus (fi)
• German: Täuschung (de) f
• Hungarian: megtévesztés (hu)

• Korean: 속임수 (ko) (sogimsu)
• Russian: обма́н (ru) (obmán) m

state of being deceptive

• Finnish: vilpillisyys (fi)
• German: Falschheit (de) f
• Hungarian: megtévesztő (hu)

• Korean: 기만 (ko) (giman)
• Russian: обма́нчивость (ru) (obmánčivost') f, лжи́вость (ru) (lžívost') f

legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact

• Finnish: petos (fi)

• Russian: обма́н (ru) (obmán) m

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Translations to be checked

• French: tromperie
• German: Täuschung (de) f, Betrug (de) m
• Greek: απάτη (el) (apáti) f (apáti)

• Italian: inganno, frode;
• Portuguese: engano, fraude; artifício
• Spanish: engaño