DECEIT


Meaning of DECEIT in English

noun

1.

the act or practice of imposing upon the credulity of others by dishonesty, fraud, or trickery

he was full of deceit in his business dealings

Synonyms: cunning, dissemblance, dissimulation, duplicity, guile

Related Word: chicane, chicanery, deception, double-dealing, fraud, trickery; artifice, craft; cheating, cozening, defrauding, entrapping, overreaching, trapping

Contrasted words: honesty, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness; candidness, candor, frankness, openness; forthrightness, straightforwardness

2.

Synonyms: imposture , deception, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, sell, sham, swindle

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