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Deceit

Definition of Deceit

  • 1. The quality of being fraudulent Noun
  • 2. A misleading falsehood Noun
  • 3. The act of deceiving Noun

Synonyms for word "deceit"

  • deception
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • fraudulence
  • deception
  • misrepresentation

Semanticaly linked words with "deceit"

  • dishonesty
  • bill of goods
  • humbug
  • snake oil
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • untruth
  • half-truth
  • facade
  • window dressing
  • exaggeration
  • magnification
  • overstatement
  • snow job
  • dissembling
  • feigning
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • blind
  • subterfuge
  • hanky panky
  • hocus-pocus
  • jiggery-pokery
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • trickery
  • duplicity
  • fraudulence
  • equivocation
  • evasion
  • falsification
  • misrepresentation
  • fakery
  • indirection
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • guile
  • shenanigan
  • trickery
  • wile
  • double-dealing
  • duplicity
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • delusion
  • head game
  • illusion
  • feigning
  • pretence
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • simulation
  • impersonation
  • imposture
  • obscurantism
  • bluff
  • four flush
  • take-in

Hyponims for word "deceit"

  • dishonesty
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • untruth
  • falsification
  • misrepresentation
Words Rhyme with deceit
  • conceit
  • deceit
  • self-deceit
Etymology for deceit
  • etymology deceitful
  • etymology deceitless
  • etymology self-deceit
  • etymologically related deceive
  • etymologically related deceptive
  • is derived from deceitful
  • is derived from deceits
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