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How to use deceit in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Deceit means an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. Example: “The whole conversation was merely a deceit.”

Examples of deceit by meaning

nounAn act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

  • The whole conversation was merely a deceit.

nounAn act of deceiving someone.

  • Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father.1998, Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page 125

nounA group of lapwings.

  • Deceits of lapwings were preparing to migrate2025, Juhani Seppovaara, A Chess Master, page 16
  • These birds belonged to a deceit of lapwings that had been displaced from their tract of grasslands and marshy grounds by a housing development.2024 July 3, “Life of the lapwing”, in Saturday Express

More sentences with deceit

  • A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.From the entry sham
  • Let us hope that this is a momentary blip and does not imply a permacrisis of deceit.2022 December 12, Paul Warren, “Language Matters: Going into goblin mode to see you through a permacrisis”, in Stuff, archived from the…. From the entry permacrisis
  • Hellenistic Judaism was familiar with the idea that deceit is characteristic of the end times (see T.2002, Raymond F. Collins, I & II Timothy and Titus: A Commentary, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry end times
  • Was happiness Satan’s allure, his tantalizing deceit?2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 95. From the entry anabaptist
  • And congress has legitimized the channels of deceit through laws which pay danegeld to the most strident noise makers.1989, Irwin M. Ryan, The Last Congress, Remco, →ISBN. From the entry danegeld
  • Wherefore it does not always follow that where there is a covenant the action of deceit will not lie.[1442, William Paston, Justice of the Common Pleas, Shipton v. Dogge (No. 2); Doige’s Case (Y. B. Trinity 20 Hen. VI, folio 34, pl. 4…. From the entry enfeoff
  • If the world survives, this war will surely be taught as a textbook case of a colossal military blunder entrained by deceit and self-deception.2011 October 25, Robert Trivers, “The 2003 US War on Iraq”, in The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life…. From the entry entrain
  • By its help parents and proparents were able to bring the youths into the very presence of the loathed deceit without submitting them to the chance of contagion.2025, Ron Miller, Alan Orloff, Tom Milani, Black Cat Weekly #204, page 961. From the entry telacoustic
  • A shifty or unreliable politician may hide their mendacity behind deceit, fabrication on confabulation, or by rehearsed counter-attack that simply ignores the questions but makes imputations against the other.2019 March 23, Jack Waterford, “Prime Minister's ever-diminishing credibility”, in The Canberra Times, Canberra. From the entry mendacity
  • Deceit, lying, putting things over on people, bringing people down without their knowing it, stabbing in the back, hitting and running, obsequiousness, underhandedness, stealing, Uriah Heepishness.2014, Daphne Athas, Entering Ephesus, Open Road Media, page 187. From the entry Uriah Heepishness
  • Benumbed by the sun's Septemberly cool deceit, A bee drags its wings through the towering grass; Revived once more by a merciful breath, Westward it hastily flies.2004, Walter Schweppe, Sins of My Youth, page 40. From the entry Septemberly
  • With this announcement he made a deceit of the agreement of MWU in Berlin, that says, “The Maccabiah is a world gathering of Hebrew sport in Eretz Israel.”2001, Jewish Cultural Celebrations and Competitions in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947: Body, Beauty, and the Search for Authenticity, page…. From the entry MWU
  • Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse.2013, Anthony Howe, Byron and the Forms of Thought. From the entry captureless
  • Though as I said it, glibly, reassuringly, I knew that I lied, and a little snake of guilt stirred and began to uncoil slightly, guilt and its constant companion deceit.1993, Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter, published 1999, page 54. From the entry stir

Meaning of deceit

  1. noun An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
  2. noun An act of deceiving someone.
  3. noun The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

Full definition of deceit

Questions about deceit in a sentence

How do you use deceit in a sentence?
Deceit is used as a noun. For example: “The whole conversation was merely a deceit.”
What is a short sentence with deceit?
“Deceits of lapwings were preparing to migrate”
What does deceit mean?
Deceit means an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deceit (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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