Dictionary
de•ceit
Pronunciation: (di-sēt'), [key]—
n.
1. the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating:
Once she exposed their deceit, no one ever trusted them again.
2. an act or device intended to deceive; trick; stratagem.
3. the quality of being deceitful; duplicity; falseness:
a man full of deceit. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.