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.
Deceitful(a.) Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
Deceitfully(adv.) With intent to deceive.
Deceitfulness(n.) The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.
Deceitfulness(n.) The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
Deceitfulness(n.) Tendency to mislead or deceive.
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