How to Use deceit in a Sentence

deceit

noun

• Cue the sweet romance built on lies and deceit.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
• They are all caught in a web of deceit and revenge.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
• Gone, too, was the idea that the court must be protected from such deceit.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• There were gasps, screams, cries of British deceit and trickery, and many tears.
  — Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
• The nation has now paid a steep price for its deceit and deception.
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
• She has now been sentenced to federal prison to pay for her deceit.
  — Dan Raby, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
• But the level of deceit of this entire plan is mind-boggling.
  — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
• How can these shills face their followers after all the lies and deceit?
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• The end is near for the Byrde family and their epic web of lies and deceit.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• By the end of Season 2, all of her lies and deceit start to catch up with her.
  — Moises Mendez Ii, Time, 20 Sep. 2022
• Tom accepts the job and takes a first step into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2023
• In fact, an element of deceit might be lurking as well.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2025
• The point is how these people see themselves and their lives, through veils of delusion and deceit.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• Drama, deceit, and fierce gameplay are the hallmarks of each episode.
  — Alison McDermott, Architectural Digest, 19 Feb. 2026
• Lia Thomas stole a medal through deceit, and this rag has the gall to call him a 'champion'?
  — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
• The original trial was found to be invalid due to fraud and deceit.
  — USA Today, 24 June 2026
• In that sense, in some ways my music is like taking on mounting feelings of deceit or guilt.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 20 June 2023
• The job introduces Tom to a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
• The last factor in the deceit was the viewer’s own mind and its faulty assumptions.
  — Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
• The scale of the deceit has begun to emerge, and the ground is about to literally turn on them.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• The casual deceit that had served him in prison was proving useful.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
• There’s a lot of deceit, and not necessarily in an evil way.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
• The one-paragraph oath says workers will try to prevent fraud, deceit or abuse on voting day.
  — Charles Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022
• These five days of deceit and dysfunction don’t stand alone and won’t end with this argument.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
• Though in response to our complaint, Google doubled down on the deceit.
  — David Monahan, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
• When the couples return home, there's drama, deceit and questions about how their love can last.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• Its story is already dark and moody with themes of death, grief, deceit, revenge and bug-eating.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2024
• But that was just one tile in the rich mosaic of deceit that is the Clinton Way.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
• This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
  — Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• Like a Ponzi scheme or a magic trick, his best work is founded on the cornerstone of deceit.
  — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019