How To Use Deceit In A Sentence

His manner was sly and deceitful.
We wouldn't lie to you about the history of "perfidious" -- even though the word itself suggests deceitfulness. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.
The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
He begins a race against time to find the real killer - fighting his way through a tangle of lies and deceit to uncover an act of evil which has destroyed the life of more than one young person.

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Opening at the turn of the last century, it shows a society riven by hypocrisy and deceit. Times, Sunday Times
Rome created the word that denotes this marvellous and monstrous phenomenon, of history, the enormous city, the deceitful source of life and death -- _urbs_ -- _the city_. Characters and events of Roman History
We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office. Times, Sunday Times
3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Some examples of words ending in -ful that have no forms in -less are awful, bashful and deceitful.
And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
It was designing of him, what Brother Polycarp would have called Jesuitical, and it troubled him, the deceit. At Swim, Two Boys
Returning to her native city from Asia, she was driven home by a rude, obnoxious and deceitful driver.
The result is families under siege, war in the streets, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit.
Ge 3: 16, woman's "subjection" is represented as the consequence of her being deceived. being deceived -- The oldest manuscripts read the compound Greek verb for the simple, "Having been seduced by deceit": implying how completely Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.
Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together.
A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.
Orwell argued that in a time of universal deceit the only revolutionary act is to tell the truth.
The edge was the rather prosaic one of willing deceit. Times, Sunday Times
There is undoubtedly deceit and hogwash on both sides. The Sun
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
He was deceitful, not telling his parents, for instance, that he got honey from the carcass of a lion.
The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
This is a corruption and a deceit. Times, Sunday Times
It encouraged me to live deceitfully; I enjoyed living a lie.
It's the lies and the deceit we won't put up with. The Sun
Lies & deceit shouldn't be rewarded, not cool. The Sun
Blasting through the grey language that usually cloaks such matters he accuses the Fund of corruption, self-interest and deceit.
But the heavy deceit and the gross unfairness is running rampant. Times, Sunday Times
The Dion tax “shift” and “revenue neutral” misnomer is now being exposed for every deceitful aspect. 2008 August 02 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
A slip becomes a slide when the executive starts setting unacceptable standards based on deceit and untruth.
I don't need to lead you through the thickets of distortion, deceit, and self-puffery here.
They keep jabbering about deceit and cleaning up the government.
But the more you look into his claims, the more they seem deceitful.
I must weave a veil of dazzling falsehood to hide my grief from vulgar eyes, smoothe my brow, and paint my lips in deceitful smiles -- even in solitude I dare not think how lost I am, lest I become insane and rave. I.9
I forced a smile, a lying, deceitful, false smile, as if that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.
‘Lies and deception and deceit are part of this regime,’ he told reporters.
The elongate, loose inflorescence usually bears 4 10 brilliantly rose-coloured flowers which completely lack nectar or other food for anthophilous insects and thus act by deceit.
Have you ever noticed how, both in life and in corporations, one small piece of economy with the truth, often leads to full-blooded deceit, and then a copperbottomed southern-fried lie? Lehman Brothers; The Bank with Integrity, and Shameless Fraud
She knew or guessed at the unchronicled treachery or deceit which had brought about that seemingly harsh word or deed. Red Pottage
A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.
But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious.
At least he got that right, although now we can add lies and deceit into the mix, too. Times, Sunday Times
The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust.
He is above meanness and deceit.
At no stage, however, did the learned judge identify the deceit or deliberate falsehood.
I certainly see that there is violence, mayhem, crookery and deceit all around me. Judie Fein: Pledge of Peace
Yeah you probably right, but the hypocrisy and deceit of the Republicans which Americans loathe is simply unmatched! CNN Poll: Americans think Sanford should resign
People these days have an uncanny ability to smell deceit of any kind. Christianity Today
Awww ... can't handle it now that MSNBC is outfoxing Fox? the network had used "deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured story line is utterly misleading and irresponsible. White House step up criticism of NBC
Now those costs of training, the costs of recruitment, the costs of advertising, may be visited upon employees who deceitfully lie in their c.vs.
Hardly deserving of 'the most trusted man in America' moniker either; history has shown that he was frightfully deceitful. Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
Unions and victims' groups have already accused the company of fraud, deceit and corporate malfeasance.
While he is unsparing in his descriptions of the muddle, indecision and plain deceit in the preparation and conduct of the rising, he does communicate something of the small-scale grandeur of it all.
And suddenly he notices the workman at a distance standing there and smiling deceitfully, that is, not deceitfully though, I’m wrong there, what is it ... A Raw Youth
He was forced to leave when his deceit was uncovered after complaints about his medical competence. Times, Sunday Times
The deceit herein is that, in reality, the world of work has been, for the most part, an extremely unpleasant world in which to live - until quite recently. Feminist Fabrication
What role did he and the intelligence boffins play in compiling the deceitful dossiers last September and February?
Though our solidarity with the rest of humanity, we are entangled in a web of deceit, of hatred and of sin. Christianity Today
The cartels and their shills are what affect them, so their first interest in politics is pushing against corruption, deceit and greed. Swedish Pirates on their way to Brussels
I just can't stand the man's style, the way he swaggers and struts and smirks and the way he looks sly and deceitful and the way Americans can't see it.
For the first days of Lent, and perhaps for the entire period, devout Buddhists will abstain from intoxicants, certain foods, harsh language, deceitful deeds, and make a concentrated effort not to harm any living creature.
This caused an angry confrontation and Minton apologised for his deceit.
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Having baffled them all, she laughed scornfully, flung deceit to the winds, then hurried straight to the "fastness," and there uttered the tribal call. Flowing Gold
All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again.
The girl was enmeshed in a web of deceit and lies.
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
More and more people were drawn into his web of deceit.
All the memories of those six months of deceit, of broken pledges, of unnecessary humiliations, of petty unpoliteness from a half-educated, half-bred, conceited, and arrogant people fell from us like a heavy knapsack. Notes of a War Correspondent
Rather than wait until after a police investigation, the insurers brought a civil claim of fraud and deceit against the 57 ring members. Times, Sunday Times
Wow, a president who gathers data and considers it vs. an adolescent one who studiously avoided serving in Vietnam yet launched two incredibly costly (in blood and dollars) wars impetuously, with the Iraq war based solely on deceit and arrogance and in violation of the UN and the Geneva Conventions. Obama: Decision on U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan 'soon'
But the culture of deceit, fraud and corruption at different levels of society is never going to be eradicated by tribunals.
It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
Anybody having experienced the effects of war firsthand will understand the deceit and perversion in calling these games a reflection of global events.
Though our solidarity with the rest of humanity, we are entangled in a web of deceit, of hatred and of sin. Christianity Today
Hermes is god of communication, deceit, language, trickery, and magic.
His lawyer argued that his client had not acted deceitfully .
Opening at the turn of the last century, it shows a society riven by hypocrisy and deceit. Times, Sunday Times
In some instances they employ violence, or subterfuge, or deceit. Times, Sunday Times
It would be cruel, but a pirate who ever dared such trickery and deceit would ask for no better.
Many young men are as obstinate, and as curious in their choice, as tyrannically proud, insulting, deceitful, false-hearted, as irrefragable and peevish on the other side; Narcissus-like, Anatomy of Melancholy
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband. The Sun
She won her promotion by deceit.
And he said this of himself before also, that he did not live after the outward appearance, nor preach "handling the word deceitfully (ibid.) and corrupting it. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
Many are restless, depressed, and encumbered with the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches.
He is deceitful and has lied to you about something vital. The Sun
Murder, deceit, and malice await Sara when she comes to visit her great-aunt Contessa Belzoni in Venice of the 1880s.
No one can admire a deceitful boy.
How long must the majority of the Scottish people continue to elect such deceitful scoundrels and charlatans who masquerade as champions of the working class in our country?
Though our solidarity with the rest of humanity, we are entangled in a web of deceit, of hatred and of sin. Christianity Today
He used the word prevaricate instead of procrastinate because he was talking about the deceit of the banking industry in cahoots with the government. WNYC New York Public Radio
Sadly, lies, deceit and dishonesty appear to have become the accepted norm within the portals of power. The Sun
To play fast and loose now means to behave in a deceitful or irresponsible manner. shell game This old gambling game (earlier known as thimblerig), in which the operator openly places a pea under one of three walnut shells, then rapidly shifts the shells around and challenges a sucker to bet on the location of the pea, has given its name to any kind of chicanery or subterfuge. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
A woman is sent to prison thanks to the scheming of her deceitful husband. The Sun
They assume that all the users online are psychos, freaks, losers, geeks, or desperate, as the internet has a bad reputation for deceit.
Beginning 'There is is no longer any Temple of the Sun' there is a disturbing resonance with the recognition by both Lettrists and Situationists that the 33rd degree Masonry embodied the final syllable of the secret word JAHBULON as a reference to the Biblical city of On - more recently Heliopolis - refined by ANONYMOUS to the deceitful (cunning) Albertopolis - a name which covertly draws in the European Monarchical cabbala linking the Kaiser to Ra, the sun-God, rededicated to Osiris, God of the Dead. Brit Lit Blogs
This close observation of deceit caused her to skip her turn at jumprope.
Pray what right may you have to stew me in a saucepan up on your roof, and to send me flavors of myself done up nicely into little packages labelled deceitfully "love"? Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories
This is indeed a piece of deceit and hypocrisy. Christianity Today
In a world full of liars, cheaters and the deceitful, who has always given me honesty?
The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.
And then it was that we told the "innocent child" (that's what we call the deceitful cat) everything. A Young Girl's Diary
In each scene she has just the right look, the right slink in her walk and deceitful glint in her eye.
Parents of troublesome youths may not be surprised that the curve peaks at the age of 12 when almost all of them will be deceitful. Times, Sunday Times
All of a sudden, what I thought was a relatively healthy and honest relationship turns out to be a run-of-the-mill deceitful one, in which I am the cuckold.
He is a merchant; In his hand are balances of deceit ; He loves to extort.
Caught up in a dark world of betrayal and deceit, theirs is not a conventional love story. The Sun
But this is to miss the point by such a wide margin that it amounts to yet another deliberate deceit.
Dishonesty and deceit in areas critical to the public interest have been the hallmark of his Administration.
I felt that they were near, that they were safe, yet methought this was all deceit; — the earth reeled, the firm-enrooted trees moved — dizziness came over me — I sank to the ground. The Last Man
What we have here is an opposition calculatedly using the tactics of deceit, promising one thing to gain office, with the intention of doing exactly the opposite if elected.
On the contrary, she was going to pull him up into it beside her, and they would sit comfortably together, suffused in light, and laugh at how much afraid of him she used to be in Hampstead, and at how deceitful her afraidness had made her. The Enchanted April
Now those costs of training, the costs of recruitment, the costs of advertising, may be visited upon employees who deceitfully lie in their CVs.
These deceitful tactics are plunging mid- and low-income individuals and their families into deeper and deeper debt causing all sorts of unspeakable social vices.
As a result of their greed my good name has been tarnished by deceit and innuendo. Times, Sunday Times
He incorrectly told clients their cases had been settled, and paid one customer £4,500 of his own money to conceal his deceit.
Deceit is a deliberate tort by which A misleads B with the actual intention of inducing him to act in a particular way.
Moore is entitled to editorialise as much as he likes … but to dress it up as “fact” or “documentary” is simply deceitful and he gets away with it because he plays to the convictions of the huge Liberal lobby in Hollywood. The Gover Boils Michael Moore at Centigrade 7-7
As the truth came out, the Government made itself look incompetent, deceitful and untrustworthy.
He who speaks truth tells what is right , But a false witness , deceit.
The media has exposed deceit and fabrication behind the workings of the government machinery and the various commissions set up to look into acts of violence.
Yet there pre-exists in each character a component of deceit and corruption.
All this and yet no one had the nerve to stand up and publicly ask the deceitful politician how he squared his public policy positions with his private life?
This was drunk in a kind of cubby-hole off the night nursery, the three colonials having failed to fraternise with the posse of English servants who had been taken over with the house: a set of prim, starched pokers these, ran the verdict; and deceitful, too, with their “sirs” and “madams” to your face, and all the sneery backbiting that went on below-stairs. The Way Home
Honesty is the sum of sincerity, reasonableness, truthfulness, and fairness – honesty is the virtuous strength that overcomes deceit, deception and lying. Dr T.P.Chia
I was divorced after my ex nearly destroyed me with lies and deceit. The Sun
In Jdt 9: 10 and again in 9: 13, she petitions God for “deceitful words” that will wound those who have planned cruelties against the Jerusalem Temple and their homeland. Judith: Apocrypha.
What all this shows is that minimum effort, in the form of symbolic gestures alone, will not give firms enduring environmental credibility; instead, it lays them open to accusations of deceitfulness.
Ripley is the street-smart, smooth operator who feels no guilt at all, a man who can rationalise deceit, lies, criminal behaviour and even murder in a way not even the sharpest politician could equal.
This may be seen as part of a value system based upon personal honour, which eschews deceit and dishonesty towards members of the social group.
It tells of the lies and the machinations behind the creation of one big supernation, yet why is this not necessary reading amongst politicians and even better taught in schools, so we can all see the deceit around us? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Opening at the turn of the last century, it shows a society riven by hypocrisy and deceit. Times, Sunday Times
Window dressing isn't visual deceit if the window display accurately represents what the school is about.
The counselor to the president's accusing the network of what it calls deceitful editing, twisting the president's words. CNN Transcript May 20, 2008
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
She hits back, setting into motion an unlikely but highly watchable tale of deceit, double-dealing, divorce and international fraud.
To the party who daily practises DECEIT, how can President Obama undo what you have done in one year, what you have done over 8 years! RNC airs critical ads prior to Obama visit
'Our hearts are so deceitful in the matter of repentance, 'says Jeremy Taylor,' that the masters of the spiritual life are fain to invent suppletory arts and stratagems to secure the duty. ' Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
That Deputy Dawg-looking, dirty, deceitful dreg of the earth deserved to be cursed out, ghetto-style. Pure Paradise
You will already be damaging your marriage with the constant lies and deceit. The Sun
Furious at his deceit, she let fly at him with a stream of abuse.
Pawlenty is just what we no longer need in campaigns for national office: a socially conservative Bush clone who is deceitfully trying to portray himself as a moderate centrist. DNC paints Pawlenty as liar
You are a victim in a sophisticated chain of deceit, where everyone involved in the chain, from the marketeers to the salespeople to the banks to the lawyers, probably knew you were being ripped off.
It did not necessarily mean that any of the witnesses were being deliberately deceitful and dishonest.
How can anyone trust David 'charlatan' Cameron and nick 'deceitful' Clegg again after they have systematically lied and pulled the wool over peoples eyes over the catastrophic and idealogical driven cuts that will stymy any hope if economic recovery and will hurt peoples living standards harder than at any time in Britain's history. The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
Our Lord Christ himself did foretell us that there would be great inquiries after him, and that great deceits would be immixed therewithal. Pneumatologia
The most basic of checks will expose your deceit and ruin any chance of getting the job.
I forced a smile, a lying, deceitful, false smile, as if that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.
Otherwise, all is lasciviousness and frozen deceit.
Propaganda pumpin punks calling it food I think theyre confused, Killer sweet-treat deceit let-loose abuse For a fast-food attitude mad cow cash-crop mentality Growing instant gratification sewing seeds of slavery Its amping up the pace of the lab rat race The soma coma kamikaze selling pig fat as milkshakes A rorter slaughter trauma sick cows line mass graves WN.com - Financial News
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
After that I was brought from these long and doubtfull thoughts and phantasticall imaginations, and remembring all those maruellous diuine shapes and bodies which I had personally seene with mine eies, I then knew that they were not deceitfull shadowes, nor magicall illusions, but that I had not rightly conceiued of them. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
He has changed but why did it take lies and deceit for it to happen? The Sun
I believe that those who went on the rampage were essentially deceitful, avaricious, and prone to anger, hate, and violence.
So long as they don't act dishonestly or deceitfully, and so long as they don't violate some specific law, people living in our society are still free to conduct their affairs any which way they please.
But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
I'm very upset by his lies and deceit. The Sun
A perpetrator often is deceitful and manipulative. Christianity Today
When only 40,000 people showed up for the anti-gun Million-Mom March a few years ago, the mainstream media deceitfully reported an estimated attendance of 750,000.
The edge was the rather prosaic one of willing deceit. Times, Sunday Times
She'd obviously met a bad bunch, for McCabe is immoral, deceitful and sly.
They must not suppose me cheerless my lute is here tis a fair deceit on them this lute which has so oft been damped with the tears from my sightless eyes the sound of it is the only indication I can give that I am contented with my lot! Act II
I have to face these facts, so that I won't cling on to the deceit he spun around me.
This is deceitful and wrong - not to mention unnecessary.
The abject failure to admit to this is the big deceit of British politics. Times, Sunday Times
A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning. Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
They claim to expose actual or potential criminal behavior as well as deceitfulness, lack of self-control, violence proneness, and sociopathic tendencies.
Dr. Jean-Luc Urbain, president of the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine, called AECL's communications strategy "deceitful" and said he was unsure if Canadian hospitals would be able to cope if the NRU is, in fact, off-line until the end of the year. Progressive Bloggers
The details of the trial show that the court was just and fair in spite of the fact that both Miss Webster and her copartner, Calvin Fairbank, were not citizens of the State and had furthermore used all kinds of deceit to accomplish their purpose. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
Obviously, business risk is inherent in investing and we can't protect against it, but we can protect against risks of dishonesty and deceitful conduct.
Yet Shaft keeps on operating, pulling questionable legal tricks and using deceit and deception to fool the gangland trash of the streets.
Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, declared that Lula da Silva was "on the wrong track" and risked being "ensnared" by Iran's deceit. Top stories from Times Online
He argued that ‘hidden beneath the polished exterior of modern democracy are deceit, violence, corruption, mendacity, hypocrisy and oppression of the poor’.
Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Today I shall…… try to intensify my dislike for anything false, to the point that lying and deceit become physical impossibilities for me.
smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice
The problem with being a professional liar is that one tends to forget one's past lies, thereby becoming entangled in your own web of deceit.
Yet if this most deceitful of the 20th century's killers is calculating on forgiveness, he may be deceiving himself.
It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful.
To say that this issue is too big for the people is to portray a myth, to portray a sham, to engage in an exercise in deceit, and to engage in an exercise in duplicity.
He exuded a simple charm; there was no arrogance or deceit. Times, Sunday Times
Now we know our rights, and protect ourselves from scam attorneys and deceitful immigration officers.
He is full of charm when he gets his way, full of menace when he does not, unscrupulous, cunning and deceitful.
In a similar case involving a cohabiting couple in 2007 it was accepted that deceit was involved but the outcome of the case not made public. Times, Sunday Times
From his appearance, he does seem a deceitful man.
We must have the power to remove a corrupt and deceitful man from office. Times, Sunday Times
It was not the mythical, moral (but in reality often cruelly repressive and deceitful) 1950s but rather the supposedly lamentable late 1960s that this film was concerned with.
People these days have an uncanny ability to smell deceit of any kind. Christianity Today
For Brockovich, being an environmentalist is not about chaining oneself to a tree but ‘intercepting deceit.’
Others say it's nothing more than deceit, the debate over something called insourcing at the center of our "Face-Off" tonight. CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2004
(We are all of us, poor humankind, trapped in this double helix of deceit. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Film noir often involves an innocent hero who gets seduced or betrayed into a web of crime and deceit, usually led on by a ‘femme fatale’ character with a shady past.
It should appraise the quality of the evidence and decide whether that justifies the conclusion reached eg, whether it justifies a conclusion that the applicant obtained permission to entry by fraud or deceit.
Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
I had to know when to say no and yes, when to understand, when to act ignorant, when to lie, when to tell the truth… ruling was a game of deceit, a web of lies that entangles you and suffocates you into a bind.

How To Use Deceit In A Sentence

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