deceit
[noun]
Synonyms: dishonesty, cheating, chicanery, deception, fraud, lying, pretence, treachery, trickery

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Contrasted words: honesty, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness, candidness, candor, frankness, openness, forthrightness, straightforwardness
Related Words: chicane, chicanery, deception, double-dealing, fraud, trickery, artifice, craft, cheating, cozening, defrauding, entrapping, overreaching, trapping

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

de‧ceit /dɪˈsiːt/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Word Family: noun: deceit, deceiver, deception; adjective: deceitful, deceptive; verb: deceive; adverb: deceptively]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin decipere; ⇒ deceive]
behaviour that is intended to make someone believe something that is not true:
an atmosphere of hypocrisy and deceit
deliberate/calculated/outright deceit

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