Sentence examples for to deceit from inspiring English sources

As the gap widens, it turns to deceit.

To suggest otherwise is collective delusion, or something closer to deceit.

Depardieu understands that the true Falstaffian must be both giant and child, and that the amiable sage, to whom others defer, may himself be open to deceit.

There is the possibility that his wink was not an invitation to deceit but a sign that he found you attractive.

Trivers's candid style is disarming, though of course such self-deprecation could be a double-bluff, particularly in a book devoted to deceit.

The scariest kind of trickster is the one who believes it himself, an addiction to deceit driven by buried shame and hurt, and who has the slippery ingenuity to keep lying and devising new lies to cover up the old ones.

But it is surprising that outsiders are successful when they resort to pretext or deceit to get this information, and even more surprising that telephone companies provide this information when an outsider calls for it.

Hysteria is a cover for circular reasoning — for claiming that violence was required to stop violence, propaganda to counter deceit, repression to forestall repression, a suspension of human rights to protect human rights.

Is not the attempt to prevent self-deceit as prone to self-deceit as anything else?

Reagan writes that Reichert is so confident in his ability to observe body language to detect deceit, he appears to be a "human polygraph".

Surely Trump had to own up to some deceit here, was the implicit tone of the reporting.