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deceit🔊

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

📑 Synonyms: trick fraud

An act of deceiving someone.

📑 Synonyms: deception trickery

The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

💬 Quotations
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

(law) 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.

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