How to Use deceit in a Sentence

deceit

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  • The 12th is a siren of deceit, a perfumed Jezebel dressed to kill.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • By the end of Season 2, all of her lies and deceit start to catch up with her.
    — Moises Mendez Ii, Time, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The end is near for the Byrde family and their epic web of lies and deceit.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • There were gasps, screams, cries of British deceit and trickery, and many tears.
    — Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Gone, too, was the idea that the court must be protected from such deceit.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • The scale of the deceit has begun to emerge, and the ground is about to literally turn on them.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But that was just one tile in the rich mosaic of deceit that is the Clinton Way.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Honesty — and the other side of the penny, deceit — are the themes on Larry’s mind in this episode.
    — Sarah Nechamkin, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The job introduces Tom to a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Tom accepts the job and takes a first step into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The last factor in the deceit was the viewer’s own mind and its faulty assumptions.
    — Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The point is how these people see themselves and their lives, through veils of delusion and deceit.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Rosen added that Sloane's deceit is worse than Huffman's.
    — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The political left and right still fall victim to the deceit of the Alger myth.
    — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Though in response to our complaint, Google doubled down on the deceit.
    — David Monahan, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Her character falls in love with a body builder (Katy O’Brian) who gets caught up in a mess of murder and deceit.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
  • This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
    — Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
  • How can these shills face their followers after all the lies and deceit?
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The plots of love and deceit get pretty Shakespearean, for better and worse.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Like a Ponzi scheme or a magic trick, his best work is founded on the cornerstone of deceit.
    — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • He was charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
    — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Sarah Treleaven attempts to follow the trail of fraud and deceit.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2022
  • In the end, the Hart family's idyllic public image eclipsed a decade of deceit.
    — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Lomeli was charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
    — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The set, released on Jan. 21, brims with burning tales of nostalgia, pain and deceit.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Eisenhower’s deceit was an epiphany: the chill wind of realpolitik foretold the end of what we’d been taught since first grade.
    — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The camera presents their evidence as fact, forcing the audience to unpick the truth from the lies and deceit.
    — CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Writers of crime fiction soon grasped that the more obscure the acts of deceit, the better the literary journey.
    — Richard O’Rawe, WSJ, 10 June 2022
  • To pull off such a deceit, the beetle larvae need to coordinate to produce enough pheromones to lure in a bee.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Macbeth’s themes of deceit and dishonor sit squarely within the director's filmography while also crafting one of the most atmospheric and affecting Shakespeare works to date.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024

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