Sentence examples for a form of deceit from inspiring English sources

Manipulation is a form of deceit.

(Wislawa Szymborska, "On Death, Without Exaggeration," translated by Baranczak & Cavanagh) B. "If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit".

Integrity does allow for honest mistakes and differences in professional philosophy, but it excludes any form of deceit.

Convincing yourself to put off self improvement is a form of self-deceit.

We are in debt to a school that practices a scary form of deceit.

The enforcement of the secret trust as a response to perceived fraud also opens the door to a further form of deceit, whereby the trustee funnels the trust monies to the wrong beneficiary.

The word "lie" is so broad that it's hard to imagine that any test, even one that probes the brain, could detect all forms of deceit: small, polite lies; big, brazen, self-aggrandizing lies; lies to protect or enchant our children; lies that we don't really acknowledge to ourselves as lies; complicated alibis that we spend days rehearsing.

Since we are in the business of pursuing truth, there is more than a hint of hypocrisy when we use some form of deceit to pursue the truth.

In a film in which every character is involved in some form of deceit or intrigue, it's surprising how little you can care about any of them.

Many parents who are victims of perjury often become discouraged at the hurdles in place — how issues arising from this form of deceit are seemingly filtered out from the record or simply ignored by the courts.

Carr suggested that the government had established a "pattern of deceit".