Sentence examples for use of deceit from inspiring English sources

Was the use of deceit to expose deceit justified?

First, they involve the use of deceit and concealment, rather than the application of force or violence, for the illegitimate gain of money, property, or services.

What we are seeing is an attack on the most vulnerable, clouded and reframed as fairness, through the use of deceit and fear.

Henry Wallace said, "A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends".

Conning and manipulative-ness: the use of deceit and deception to cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and suffering of one's victims.

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.

"All the documents that can be used as proof of deceit have suddenly been withdrawn from circulation," said Claudio Laborda, leader of a BankBoston depositors' group.

In a rambling epilogue intended to show that McCarthyism is alive and well, he sweeps through 40 years of covert government activity, all of which is well known, and ends with a broadside against the present administration, claiming there is "massive evidence" that it "used the politics of deceit to make the case for the war with Iraq".

Police claimed that Pentameter used the international definition of sex trafficking contained in the UN's Palermo protocol, which involves the use of coercion or deceit to transport an unwilling man or woman into prostitution.

The book's size, its young criminal female narrator, its use of cross-class deceit and Wilkie Colayeringfluenced layering of plot twists may conveniently categorise it, but Harris's voice is an original one, and her rollicking yet delicate narrative pitch sets the book apart.

He has remarked that the Democratic Party would do the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels proud with its use of "lies and deceits".