Sentence examples for 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".
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.
Integrity does allow for honest mistakes and differences in professional philosophy, but it excludes any form of deceit.
We are in debt to a school that practices a scary form of deceit.
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.
(Face-to-face contact has always been as rich a source of identity-shifting as the Internet — read Melville's "The Confidence Man" — and courtesy is among the most potent forms of deceit).
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.
Other forms of deceit documented in Beauman's bookare more tragic than exploitative.
Convincing yourself to put off self improvement is a form of self-deceit.
