The phrase "acts of deceit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions that involve dishonesty or trickery, often in a legal or moral context.
Example: "The investigation revealed several acts of deceit that undermined the integrity of the organization."
Alternatives: "deceptive actions" or "acts of dishonesty."
Only the human hunters strain the bonds by stooping to malicious acts of deceit and cruelty.
A culture that is tolerant of bad behavior will not only doom students to continued complacency, but ultimately also rationalize more severe acts of deceit.
Plot and dialogue entwined acts of deceit and pursuit, state and domestic, as successive characters were revealed to have pretended to be the lovers or parents of others.
Enron "committed multiple acts of deceit and fraud on Standard & Poor's," said Ronald M. Barone, a managing director at that firm.
On the one hand, you may be forgiven a frisson of self-righteous superiority, since whatever your own shortcomings, you are surely above such blatant acts of deceit and neglect.
In Eve Online high-level political leaders with names like SirMolle (Swedish), Vuk Lau (Serbian), UAxDeath (Russian) and the Mittani (American) have directly shaped the game playing of tens of thousands of other players around the world, and yet can be laid low by individual acts of deceit, misdirection and plain old incompetence, just like politicians in real life.
Their fear derived from the fact that throughout their detention the Libyan authorities, in a sickening act of deceit, told anyone who asked about him that Hammerl was alive and well.
That is, in my opinion, an act of deceit by the journal: but it also illustrates one of the most important principles in science, and one of the most bafflingly recent to emerge.
Beyond the visual thrill, the sexual frisson between a male client and a female lap dancer seems to be based on a complex, and perilous balancing act of deceit and domination.
Whereas the term "cry wolf" strategy implies an act of deceit (i.e. 'plant deceits the enemies of the plant's attackers), it is not self-evident that it evolved for that reason.
