Usually means: Intentional distortion or concealment of truth.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word deceit:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. deceit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deceit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deceit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deceit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deceit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deceit, deceit: Wordnik
  7. deceit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deceit: Wiktionary
  9. deceit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deceit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deceit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deceit: Dictionary.com
  13. deceit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deceit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deceit (Darvill-Evans novel), Deceit (TV serial), Deceit (album), Deceit (disambiguation), Deceit (horse), Deceit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deceit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deceit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deceit: Rhymezone
  19. deceit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deceit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. deceit: Free Dictionary
  22. deceit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. deceit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. deceit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. deceit: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Deceit: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. deceit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deceit: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deceit: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deceits as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
noun:  An act of deceiving someone.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
noun:  (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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