- the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:Once she exposed their deceit, no one ever trusted them again.
- an act or device intended to deceive; trick; stratagem.
- the quality of being deceitful; duplicity; falseness: a man full of deceit.
- the act or practice of deceiving
- a statement, act, or device intended to mislead; fraud; trick
- a tendency to deceive
