Deceit vs. Trickery — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Deceit and Trickery
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Definitions
Deceit
The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth
A web of deceit
A series of lies and deceits
Hypocrisy and deceit were anathema to her
Trickery
The practice or use of tricks; deception by stratagem.
Deceit
The act or practice of deceiving; deception.
Trickery
(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
Deceit
A stratagem; a trick.
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Trickery
(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
Deceit
The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
Trickery
(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
Deceit
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
Trickery
(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
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Deceit
An act of deceiving someone.
Trickery
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Deceit
(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
Trickery
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Deceit
(law) 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.
Trickery
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Deceit
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit.
Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile.
Yet still we hug the dear deceit.
Deceit
Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
Deceit
The quality of being fraudulent
Deceit
A misleading falsehood
Deceit
The act of deceiving