How to Use deceit in a Sentence
deceit
noun-
The point is how these people see themselves and their lives, through veils of delusion and deceit.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
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The job introduces Tom to a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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Hell, sometimes they’re even forced to resort to elaborate, years-long deceit to keep the show’s secrets secret.
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The deceit and trickery was offset by the physical comedy of the story.
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In fact, that final year of the deceit, 2008, brought lots of major expenditures.
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Politics at all levels requires smooth, charismatic deceit.
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But the extent of his (and eventually his family’s) deceit was only revealed in 2012.
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The same organization oversaw numerous other for-profit schools with a history of high student loan default rates and deceit.
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The errant mix of government deceit or ineptitude and press passivity is underscored by news that, ah, no, the Vinson wasn’t headed there.
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The complexity of the relationships grabs the audience’s attention, keeping it alive with growing tensions between schemes and deceit.
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The 12th is a siren of deceit, a perfumed Jezebel dressed to kill.
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By the end of Season 2, all of her lies and deceit start to catch up with her.
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The end is near for the Byrde family and their epic web of lies and deceit.
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There were gasps, screams, cries of British deceit and trickery, and many tears.
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Gone, too, was the idea that the court must be protected from such deceit.
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The scale of the deceit has begun to emerge, and the ground is about to literally turn on them.
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But that was just one tile in the rich mosaic of deceit that is the Clinton Way.
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Honesty — and the other side of the penny, deceit — are the themes on Larry’s mind in this episode.
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Tom accepts the job and takes a first step into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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The last factor in the deceit was the viewer’s own mind and its faulty assumptions.
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Rosen added that Sloane's deceit is worse than Huffman's.
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The political left and right still fall victim to the deceit of the Alger myth.
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Though in response to our complaint, Google doubled down on the deceit.
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Her character falls in love with a body builder (Katy O’Brian) who gets caught up in a mess of murder and deceit.
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This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
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How can these shills face their followers after all the lies and deceit?
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The plots of love and deceit get pretty Shakespearean, for better and worse.
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Like a Ponzi scheme or a magic trick, his best work is founded on the cornerstone of deceit.
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He was charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
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Sarah Treleaven attempts to follow the trail of fraud and deceit.
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