Deceit vs. Trickery — What's the Difference?

The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth

The practice or use of tricks; deception by stratagem.

The act or practice of deceiving; deception.

(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.

A stratagem; a trick.

(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.

The quality of being deceitful; falseness.

(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.

An act of deceiving someone.

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

(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.

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

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.

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.

The quality of being fraudulent

A misleading falsehood

The act of deceiving