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deceit definition and meaning

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.
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.

Crossword clues for deceit

- Duplicity
- Ed turns on church? It is treachery!
- Feign
- Fraud
- Fraud or misrepresentation
- Guile
- Ruse
- Underhandedness