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What is a deceit?

What is a deceit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
  2. An act of deceiving someone
  3. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
  4. (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.
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These contrivances that I declare unto thee are legitimate means of kingcraft. They are not reckoned as methods fraught with deceit.
They assume that all the users online are psychos, freaks, losers, geeks, or desperate, as the internet has a bad reputation for deceit.
The play is a thriller about the talented Mr Tom Ripley who is a master of deceit and disguise.
Of course, the electorate are increasingly seeing through the lies and deceit of Labour.
It is to help those who have fallen for the lies and deceit of quack medicine and pseudoscience.
Unions and victims' groups have already accused the company of fraud, deceit and corporate malfeasance.

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