Deceit(n.)
- 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.
Deceit(n.)
- 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.
Deceitful(a.)
- Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.