Sentence examples for was deceit from inspiring English sources
noun
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
- The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
She told the Venetian ambassador in June 1568 that all one could expect from Huguenots was deceit, and she praised the Duke of Alba's reign of terror in the Netherlands, where Calvinists and rebels were put to death in the thousands.
Navai's second principle is deceit.
For the scribblers, the most obvious problem is deceit.
"Why is deceit taken to be a good thing?
Iraqi defence is "resistance" or worse still, "pockets of resistance", Iraqi military strategy is deceit.
His topic is deceit, with which by his own admission he has wrestled — on a personal as well as professional level — throughout his adult life.
Minutes of the board meetings reflect intense debate: some parents wanted a school "based on godly principles," while others contended that "the idea to be as close to a Christian school and be public while taking public money is deceit".
Other serious transgressions listed are deceit, plagiarism, and damage to the research of others.
Their sin is deceit; they ultimately defraud God, according to the passage.
The reality is, deceit is color-blind and there is nothing little about a lie; lies take on a life of their own and never get smaller, only larger.
"This was a deceit of such subtlety and cunning in its planning, and was a deceit from your point of view so successful in its execution that an outsider to this case might find the facts difficult to comprehend.
