Definition of deceit

"deceit" in the noun sense

1. fraudulence, deceit

the quality of being fraudulent

2. misrepresentation, deceit, deception

a misleading falsehood

3. deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation

the act of deceiving

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Quotations for deceit

A pious fraud. [ Ovid ]

Trust not to outward show. [ Juvenal ]

Think not I am what I appear. [ Byron ]

We are our own aptest deceiver. [ Goethe ]

The best of women are hypocrites. [ Thackeray ]

Yet still we hug the dear deceit. [ Nathaniel Cotton ]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive. [ Sir Walter Scott, Marmion ]

Trust not in him that seems a saint. [ Fuller ]

Fraud and deceit are always in haste. [ Proverb ]

Gold all is not that doth golden seem. [ Spenser ]

Life is the art of being well-deceived. [ Hazlitt ]

We are easily fooled by that which we love. [ Moliere ]

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. [ Goethe ]

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made.
To turn a penny in the way of trade. [ Cowper ]

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs? [ J. P. Kemble ]

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

Beauty? thou pretty plaything! dear deceit,
That steals so softly over the stripling's heart
And gives it a new pulse unknown before! [ Blair ]

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [ La Fontaine ]

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [ Cicero ]

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [ Richelieu ]

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men. [ Cicero ]

Deadly poisons are often concealed under sweet honey. [ Ovid ]

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [ Goldoni ]

Oh, that deceit should dwell in sucb a gorgeous palace! [ William Shakespeare ]

The smooth speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. [ Phaedrus ]

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can stay a fair leisure. [ Proverb ]

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]

You should not live one way in private, another in public. [ Syrus ]

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. [ Bovee ]

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. [ George Eliot ]

He carries a store in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [ Plautus ]

Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]

It is riot being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. [ Mme. Sophie Arnould ]

The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception. [ Adam Ferguson ]

We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood. [ Bruyere ]

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. [ Glanvill ]

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. [ Martial ]

It is a pity that we so often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. [ Empress Irene ]

By art and deceit men live half the year, and by deceit and art the other half. [ Proverb ]

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong conduct appear right. [ Terence ]

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do our own selves. [ Schopenhauer ]

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. [ Pope ]

No one has deceived the whole world, nor has the whole world ever deceived any one. [ Pliny the Younger ]

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. [ Trench ]

The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. [ Hitopadesa ]

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet, - deceit sugar-coated. [ Latimer ]

There is no man easier to deceive than he who hopes; for he aids in his own deceit. [ Bossuet ]

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. [ Bailey ]

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears - the one of grief, the other of deceit. [ Pythagoras ]

With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. [ Dryden ]

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. [ Demosthenes ]

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. [ Froude ]

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, not do they long deceive. [ La Bruyere ]

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

deceit in Scrabble®

The word deceit is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters deceit:

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deceit in Words With Friends™

The word deceit is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters deceit:

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Words containing the sequence deceit

Words that start with deceit (5 words)

Words with deceit in them (2 words)

Words that end with deceit (1 word)

Word Growth involving deceit

Shorter words in deceit

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Longer words containing deceit

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deceitful deceitfulness

deceitful nondeceitful

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