Entry Word: deceit

Function: noun

Meaning: the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery <the evil queen in the story was full of deceit>

Synonyms artifice, craft, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, deceitfulness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, wiliness

Related Words equivocation, prevarication; chicanery, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, trickery; hypocrisy, insincerity; deviousness, shrewdness; treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness; covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness; oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness

Near Antonyms candidness, candor, directness, frankness, ingenuousness, openness, plainness; honesty, probity; reliability, trustworthiness

Antonyms artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, sincerity