deceitnoun [ C or U ]
uk/dɪˈsiːt/us/dɪˈsiːt/(an act of) keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage:
The story is about theft, fraud, and deceit on an incredible scale.
When the newspapers published the full story, all his earlier deceits were revealed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- hypocrisy
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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deceitful
adjective uk/dɪˈsiːt.fəl/us/dɪˈsiːt.fəl/
deceitful behaviour
deceitfully
adverb uk/dɪˈsiːt.fəl.i/us/dɪˈsiːt.fəl.i/
deceitfulness
noun [ U ] uk/dɪˈsiːt.fəl.nəs/us/dɪˈsiːt.fəl.nəs/