"deceit about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means dishonesty or falsehood regarding something. Example: He exposed the company's deceit about their product's effectiveness, causing their sales to plummet.
It's about universal worries, the ease of deceit, about courage and how deeply one can ever really know another.
This is what our media stars and progressive columnists, pundits and bloggers are obsessing over in the hope of distracting attention away from the surveillance misconduct of top-level Obama officials and their serial deceit about it.
On a recent long drive through the Rockies with the Farrellys and Mike Cerrone, the conversation was about Rhode Island school friends who had died in freak accidents or lived lives of spectacular deceit; about the comparative virtues of bathrooms in roadside hotel chains ("Holiday Inn, maybe, but Holiday Inn Express?
Principles may act in chains: for example, Deceit about risks of being caught can feed Deterrence.
However, the regulation of greenwashing (intentional deceit about poor environmental performance) in the past has been largely ineffective.
Publishing is the splashiest part of what Byliner does, and the site has already made waves with Jon Krakauer's "Three Cups of Deceit," about the allegations of fraud around author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson.
By and large, though, the essence of subway peddling has always been less about deceit than about the effective sales pitch, delivered at the right volume, at the right point inside the subway car, with just the right kind of hook to drag the submerged consciousness of the average subway rider flopping back to the surface.
Some news media endorsements of Mr. Kirk underplay the deceits about his military and teaching résumés, seemingly convinced we'll get something greater in return.
He also shows that Oppenheimer's petty deceits about who told him what concerning potential Soviet espionage were motivated more by personal than political loyalties and damaged himself more than anyone else.
"Catfish" is about deceit in internet dating (the word is slang for a lying online lonely heart).
It was 1986, and General Pinochet's cruel and repressive dictatorship, based on deceit, lying about the principles of democracy and a well-orchestrated state system to manipulate public facts was in full force.
