It is difficult to conceive of a deceit so degrading or a deceit so damaging to the victim on its discovery.
Alan Johnson, the home secretary, accused the Tories of peddling a "big deceit" on crime.
Osborne said Labour was trying to "perpetrate a grand deceit on the British public", and that the IFS "are confirming what we know: that the Labour leader and the shadow chancellor would do it all over again – tax and borrow and spend their way into an economic crisis and let the British people pay the price".
For as long as we buy most of what we eat from a few retail giants that can bully suppliers and ignore exploitation in the supply chain in order to make fat profits, the food industry will be based on a deceit.
He agreed with Michael Mansfield QC, representing 75 families whose relatives were killed in the lethal crush, that he was "practising and persisted in a far-reaching deceit" on the day, by lying to Football Association and football club officials about his actions.
Two anecdotal set pieces (about a trip to Warwick Castle dungeons, and about discovering a deceit her ex-husband perpetrated on her years ago) aren't big on laughs, but they're fine storytelling.
Had you acquiesced in deceit on a visa application in the face of such laws, you would have committed at worst a minor moral transgression (albeit one that, like all lies, exacts a social toll).
The denunciation hit the high notes of the most fevered antiwar rhetoric, accusing Bush (he of the "addled brain"), his alleged puppet master ("the American snake-oil salesman Dick Cheney"), and the "tragically know-it-all minions," "sycophants," and "mental dwarves" who serve them in the Administration of perpetrating a "panoramic and murderous deceit" on America and the world.
For instance, Senator Bob Graham of Florida, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, accused Mr. Bush of "a pattern of deception and deceit" on Iraq.
Whoever Russell gets to defend him whenever his cons finally catch up to him (a man who advances himself through deceit on TV will do so in real life as well, as everyone from Richard Hatch to Adam Jasinski has repeatedly proved)., I hope it's someone highly incompetent.
