English-Thai Dictionary

deceit

N การ หลอกลวง  การหลอก  deceitfulness kan-lok-luang

 

deceitful

ADJ ซึ่ง หลอกลวง  ซึ่ง ไม่ ซื่อ  sueng-lok-luang

 

deceitfully

ADV อย่าง หลอกลวง  อย่าง ไม่ ซื่อ  อย่าง ไม่จริงใจ  insincerely dishonestly trickily yang-lok-luang

 

deceitfulness

N การ หลอกลวง  ความ ไม่ ซื่อ  ความ ไม่จริงใจ  insincerity trickiness kan-lok-luang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DECEIT

n. 1. Literally, a catching or ensnaring. Hence, the misleading of a person; the leading of another person to believe what is false, or not to believe what is true, and thus to ensnare him; fraud; fallacy; cheat; any declaration, artifice or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. Job 27:4.
2. Stratagem; artifice; device intended to mislead.
They imagine deceits all the day long. Psalm 38:12.
3. In scripture, that which is obtained by guile, fraud or oppression.
Their houses are full of deceit. Jeremiah 5:27; Zephaniah 1:9.
4. In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, shift, covin, or underhand practice, used to defraud another.

 

DECEITFUL

a. 1. Tending to mislead, deceive or ensnare; as deceitful words; deceitful practices.
Favor is deceitful. Proverbs 31:3 .
2. Full of deceit; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; as a deceitful man.

 

DECEITFULLY

adv. In a deceitful manner; fraudulently; with deceit; in a manner or with a view to deceive. The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully. Genesis 34:13.

 

DECEITFULNESS

n. 1. Tendency to mislead or deceive; as the deceitfulness of sin.
2. The quality of being fraudulent; as the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
3. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

 

DECEITLESS

a.Free from deceit.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DECEIT

De *ceit ", n. Etym: [OF. deceit, des, decept (cf. deceite, de ), 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. Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit. Amos viii. 5. Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. Milton. Yet still we hug the dear deceit. N. Cotton.

 

2. (Law )

 

Defn: 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.

 

DECEITFUL

DECEITFUL De *ceit "ful, a.

 

Defn: Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

 

DECEITFULLY

DECEITFULLY De *ceit "ful *ly, adv.

 

Defn: With intent to deceive.

 

DECEITFULNESS

DECEITFULNESS De *ceit "ful *ness, n.

 

1. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

 

2. The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.

 

3. Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches. " Matt. xiii. 22.

 

DECEITLESS

DECEITLESS De *ceit "less, a.

 

Defn: Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

deceit

de ceit |diˈsēt dəˈsit | ▶noun the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth: a web of deceit | a series of lies and deceits. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, past participle (used as a noun ) of deceveir ‘deceive. ’

 

deceitful

de ceit ful |diˈsētfəl dəˈsitfəl | ▶adjective guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others: such an act would have been deceitful and irresponsible. DERIVATIVES de ceit ful ly adverb, de ceit ful ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

deceit

de ¦ceit |dɪˈsiːt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth: a web of deceit | hypocrisy and deceit were anathema to her | [ count noun ] : a series of lies and deceits. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, past participle (used as a noun ) of deceveir ‘deceive ’.

 

deceitful

de ¦ceit |ful |dɪˈsiːtfʊl, -f (ə )l | ▶adjective guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others: a deceitful politician | such an act would have been deceitful and irresponsible. DERIVATIVES deceitfully adverb, deceitfulness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

deceit

deceit noun 1 her endless deceit: deception, deceitfulness, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, cheating, trickery, chicanery, deviousness, slyness, wiliness, guile, bluff, lying, pretense, treachery; informal crookedness, monkey business, monkeyshines. ANTONYMS honesty. 2 their life is a deceit: sham, fraud, pretense, hoax, fake, blind, artifice; trick, stratagem, device, ruse, scheme, dodge, machination, deception, subterfuge; cheat, swindle; informal con, setup, scam, flimflam, bunco. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See fiction . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

deceitful

deceitful adjective 1 a deceitful woman: dishonest, untruthful, mendacious, insincere, false, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, underhanded, crafty, cunning, sly, scheming, calculating, treacherous, Machiavellian, sneaky, tricky, foxy, crooked. 2 a deceitful allegation: fraudulent, counterfeit, fabricated, invented, concocted, made up, trumped up, untrue, false, bogus, fake, spurious, fallacious, deceptive, misleading; euphemistic economical with the truth.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

deceit

deceit noun 1 we are caught in an endless round of lies and deceit: deception, deceitfulness, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, cheating, trickery, duping, hoodwinking, chicanery, underhandedness, deviousness, slyness, cunning, craftiness, craft, wiliness, artfulness, guile, dissimulation, dissembling, bluff, bluffing, lying, pretence, artifice, treachery; informal crookedness, monkey business, funny business, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery; N. Amer. informal monkeyshines; Irish informal codology; archaic management, knavery. ANTONYMS honesty. 2 their life is all a deceit: sham, fraud, pretence, imposture, hoax, fake, misrepresentation, blind, wile, artifice, Trojan horse; trick, stratagem, device, ruse, scheme, dodge, manoeuvre, contrivance, machination, deception, subterfuge, cheat, swindle, confidence trick; informal con, con trick, set-up, game, scam, sting, gyp, leg-pull, flimflam; Brit. informal wheeze; N. Amer. informal bunco, grift; Austral. informal lurk, rort; S. African informal schlenter; Brit. informal, dated flanker; archaic shift, fetch, rig.

 

deceitful

deceitful adjective 1 he was surrounded by foolish and deceitful women: dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false, deceiving, dissembling, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, cheating, underhand, crafty, cunning, sly, guileful, scheming, calculating, conniving, designing, hypocritical, perfidious, treacherous, Machiavellian; informal sneaky, tricky, foxy, crooked, sharp, shady, shifty, slippery; Brit. informal bent; S. African informal slim; archaic subtle, hollow-hearted; rare false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic. ANTONYMS honest. 2 they dismissed the allegations as deceitful: fraudulent, counterfeit, fabricated, invented, concocted, made up, trumped up, untrue, hollow, false, sham, bogus, fake, illusory, spurious, specious, fallacious, deceptive, misleading, misguided, distorted; humorous economical with the truth. ANTONYMS true.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

deceit

de ceit /dɪsíːt /→deceive 名詞 複 ～s /-ts /1 U 〖具体例では 可算 〗欺く [だます ]こと , ぺてん, 詐欺 ; 虚偽, 不誠実 ; 隠匿 （いんとく ）(→deception ).2 C (人を陥れる )計略 , 策謀 .

 

deceitful

de ceit ful /dɪsíːtf (ə )l /形容詞 1 〈人 企業などが 〉 (目的をかなえるために )うそをつく, 人を欺く, 詐欺の .2 〈言動などが 〉人を惑わすような .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞