1
as in deception
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
a rise to power that was marked by treachery and deceit
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2
as in deceitfulness
the tendency to tell lies
she's completely free of deceit
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Recent Examples of deceit
There’s a lot of deceit, and not necessarily in an evil way.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Likewise, be careful about major purchases, because an element of confusion, along with possible deceit (including fantasies of grandeur), might cloud your thinking.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Big Oil giant Shell accused Venture Global of deceit—not disruption—in a contract dispute.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025
The former Facts of Life star — and committed Christian — struggled with the game's deceit yet managed a second-place finish.
—Steve Helling, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Likewise, be careful about major purchases, because an element of confusion, along with possible deceit (including fantasies of grandeur), might cloud your thinking.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Big Oil giant Shell accused Venture Global of deceit—not disruption—in a contract dispute.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025
The former Facts of Life star — and committed Christian — struggled with the game's deceit yet managed a second-place finish.
—Steve Helling, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceit
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Everything can be used as a tool for good and to build, or for bad and destruction and deception.—
Marc Malkin,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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The question now is whether our ability to detect deception can evolve as fast as the tools that create it.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
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Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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The problem isn’t that my girlfriend wouldn’t get to go, but the disrespect and dishonesty of uninviting her out of the blue and trying to cover it up as being a genuine mistake.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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In the end, many of the investigations could not be pursued because his accusers did not sign formal complaints, and some complaints, including those that involved allegations of dishonesty, were not sustained by police oversight officials.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
2 Oct. 2025
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As investigators dig deeper, more disturbing secrets emerge, including financial fraud, addiction, mysterious deaths and corruption.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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Western Alliance also is alleging fraud in its bad loans.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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Both had a bad drinking habit by then, and when Martha confronted Willie about his cheating, a fight broke out.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Oct. 2025
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In addition to delivering high-quality search results, this method hinders search-engine cheating; artificially boosting your web page by putting up a thousand pages linking to it won’t accomplish much if those pages have low status.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
11 Oct. 2025
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Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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But Israeli cunning, buoyed by remarkable intelligence capabilities and precision targeting, has damaged the group.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Deceit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceit. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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