• IPA: /dɪˈsiːt/

deceit (plural deceits)

1. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

   The whole conversation was merely a deceit.

2. An act of deceiving someone.
3. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Psalms 10:7 ↗:

     His mouth is full of curſing, and deceit, and fraud : vnder his tongue is miſchiefe and vanitie.

4. (legal) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.

• (act or behavior intended to deceive) trick, fraud
• (act of deceiving) deception, trickery
• (state of being deceptive) underhandedness, deceptiveness, deceitfulness, dissimulation, fraudulence, trickery
• See also Thesaurus:deception

• French: tromperie, ruse
• German: Betrügerei
• Italian: falsità, mendacità, inganno, trucco
• Portuguese: velhacaria, fraude
• Russian: обма́н
• Spanish: bellaquería, fraude, engaño, embeleco

• French: tromperie
• German: Täuschung
• Portuguese: logro
• Russian: обма́н
• Spanish: fraude, engaño

• German: Falschheit
• Russian: обма́нчивость

• French: fraude
• Russian: обма́н
• Spanish: fraude