Deceit

What do we mean by deceit?

The act or practice of deceiving; deception. noun

A stratagem; a trick. noun

The quality of being deceitful; falseness. noun

The quality of being false or misleading; falseness; falsehood; deception; deceptiveness. noun

The act or practice of deceiving; concealment or perversion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; fraud; cheating. noun

That which deceives; action or speech designed to mislead or beguile; a guileful artifice. noun

In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another: now more commonly called fraud or misrepresentation. noun

An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud. noun

Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation. noun

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick noun

An act of deceiving someone noun

The state of being deceitful or deceptive noun

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. noun

A misleading falsehood noun

The act of deceiving noun

The quality of being fraudulent noun

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

An act of deceiving someone.

The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to deceit:
deceit, decent, receit, decet.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word deceit:
misrepresentation, falsehood, trickery, dishonesty, treachery, greed, hypocrisy, betrayal, tort, envy, deception, manipulation, cheating, fraudulent, liable, defendant, fraud, false, truth, breach, anger, theft, dancer, rape, revenge, consent, conspiracy, devil, thriller, torture, murder, agrees, intent, pride, lying, mystery, passion, lie, evil, corruption, knowing, pearl, marry, telling, sexual, desire, conduct, plot, gain, anything, destroy, violence, moral.

Words that rhyme with deceit:
beat, browbeat, discrete, meet, eat, sheet, discreet, seat, treat, street, heat, receipt, elite, sweet, suite, complete, obsolete, neat, meat, retreat, concrete, feet, fleet, feat, replete, conceit, effete, sleet, mete, defeat, deplete, cheat, beet, compete, athlete, wheat, repeat, greet, upbeat, bittersweet, cleat, delete, peat, petite, backseat, tweet, gamete, st, skeet, bleat, pete, pleat, overeat, secrete, heartbeat, spreadsheet, worksheet, deadbeat, buckwheat, deet, offbeat, teat, leet, crete, indiscreet, incomplete, neet, teet, excrete, piet, parakeet, unseat, mesquite, creat, marguerite, time sheet, drumbeat, mistreat, gleet, downbeat, peet, balance sheet, mincemeat, amit, overheat, creaght, crabmeat, flete, love seat, poteat, high street, wall street, grete, noncompete, trick or treat, dead heat, hot seat, car seat, speet, white heat.

Adjectives that are often used to describe deceit:
such, self, vain, deliberate, own, much, intentional, conscious, mutual, more, hurtful, cunning, mere, wilful, empty, innocent, cruel, outright, gross, utter, dangerous, false, dark, successful, pure, mean, nonhuman, subtle, sheer, deep, foul, willful, fast, clever, petty, vile, calculated, double, systematic, fond, dear, sweet, fatal, shameful, soft, universal, harmless, premeditated, downright, elaborate, sly, wicked, secret, pious, felf, terrible, necessary, loyal, treacherous, habitual, generous, monstrous, hypocritical, feminine, malicious, blatant, artful, devilish, actionable, like, verbal, wily, alleged.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective deceit:
pollination.

Consonant match to deceit:
doucette, dacite, dissite, doucet, dossett, desight, dowcet, dysart, disseat, day sight, d sat, d set, d sit, d site, das at, das et, das hat, das hatte, day set, day sit, dee sat, deuce it, di sette, dice it, do set, do sit, doose et, dos at, dos et, dos it, dos set, dose it, doss et, douce et, douse it, du site, duce et, dusett, dysert.

Words that sound like deceit:
deceit, disseat, decede, desight, dust, does it, deceits, doucette, ducey, doucet, dossett, docet, deseed, dusked, dacite, decide, deceased, dissed, dest, dist, dessie, dissert, dyst, dizzied, disi, dysart, discide, disci, dissi, deste, desked, disked, dc, dicey, diced, dosed, doused, dulcet, dossier, daisey, dasy, dost, dewitt, dast, dacey, d c, deuced, disert, deasy, dosia, doest, dassie, dacy, dcs, daoust, dawsey, dussault, dossed, dayside, dossey, de sade, dosi, dassy, daisied, deiced, dasi, dies out, dassies, desio, douc, dowst, dusi, dusseault, dieci, dauzat, the seed, tacit, tust, tacet, tasset, touse, tusked, to sit, hussite, tea set, toss out, to set, defeat, desert, deceive, descent, deceived, decease, deciet, desist, desi, deseret, dead set, desa, desalt.