Crossword-Solution: DECEIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deceit | n. | 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. |
| Deceit | n. | 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DECEIT (5)
For us alone Was death invented? or to us deni’d This intellectual food, for beasts reserv’d? For Beasts it seems: yet that one Beast which first Hath tasted, envies not, but brings with joy The good befall’n him, Author unsuspect, Friendly to man, farr from deceit or guile.
Lead on, I say, the captor’s caught, and fate Hath ta’en the fowler in the toils he spread; So soon are lost gains gotten by deceit.
Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.
That is quite true, he said; but to what are you alluding? I mean, I replied, that our rulers will find a considerable dose of falsehood and deceit necessary for the good of their subjects: we were saying that the use of all these things regarded as medicines might be of advantage.
Her husband had deceived her, yet her heart was no longer hot against him, but rather tenderly grateful that his deceit was in this sort, and not in that other.
Quotes with DECEIT (3)
A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 56 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).