Found 4 items, similar to DECEIT.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: deceit
penipuan
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: deceit
akal, berhianat, bohong, keculasan, kecurangan, pendayaan, penipuan, tipu, tipuan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: deceit
deceit
n 1: the quality of being fraudulent [syn:
fraudulence]
2: a misleading falsehood [syn:
misrepresentation,
deception]
3: the act of deceiving [syn:
deception,
dissembling,
dissimulation]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Deceit
Deceit
\De*ceit"\, n. [OF. deceit, des[,c]ait, decept (cf.
deceite, de[,c]oite), fr. L. deceptus deception, fr.
decipere. See
Deceive.]
1. 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.
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Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and
falsifying the balances by deceit. --Amos viii.
5.
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Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. --Milton.
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Yet still we hug the dear deceit. --N. Cotton.
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2. (Law) 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.
Syn: Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity; trickery;
guile; falsifying; double-dealing; stratagem. See
Deception.
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