Sentence examples for outright deceit from inspiring English sources

Despite North Korea's record of caprice and outright deceit, this is a good deal for America.

Misconceptions, taboos and outright deceit have fostered denial among both officials and the broader population.

It reached a handful of multimillion-dollar settlements with big credit-card companies and debt-refinancing outfits for misleading marketing or outright deceit.

Mikael, as played by Michael Nyqvist, is as open in his demeanor as Lisbeth is secretive, though he also frequently operates by means of indirection and outright deceit.

Mélisande in particular is a notoriously enigmatic character, whose evasiveness – if not outright deceit – fuels the atmosphere of uncertainty that Debussy underscores with his enchantingly ambiguous music.

In the endless debates about what constitutes "fake news," we tend to invoke clear cases of unfounded rumor or outright deceit ("Melania has a body double," or "President Trump saves two cats from drowning after Hurricane Harvey").

The distrust that most Americans feel for politicians is easily traceable back to 44 years ago and the deceits, outright lies and dark personality quirks of Richard Nixon.

Yes, there were misrepresentations, deceit and outright lies.

There was "persuasive evidence that the agents were outright dishonest," and there was "further evidence of police ineptitude and deceit," Judge Robert Bruce King wrote.

Ida Tarbell, the greatest of the muckraking journalists, accused Standard Oil of building its empire on "fraud, deceit, special privilege, gross illegality, bribery, coercion, corruption, intimidation, espionage or outright terror".

Now, add to this the two-decades-long GOP campaign of rumor, smears, and outright lies against Hillary and Bill Clinton both within and without the White House, and you have a pattern of deceit and duplicity against a politician virtually unprecedented in American political annals.