How to Use deceit in a Sentence

deceit

noun

• The 12th is a siren of deceit, a perfumed Jezebel dressed to kill.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• By the end of Season 2, all of her lies and deceit start to catch up with her.
  — Moises Mendez Ii, Time, 20 Sep. 2022
• The end is near for the Byrde family and their epic web of lies and deceit.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• There were gasps, screams, cries of British deceit and trickery, and many tears.
  — Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
• Gone, too, was the idea that the court must be protected from such deceit.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• The scale of the deceit has begun to emerge, and the ground is about to literally turn on them.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• But that was just one tile in the rich mosaic of deceit that is the Clinton Way.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
• Honesty — and the other side of the penny, deceit — are the themes on Larry’s mind in this episode.
  — Sarah Nechamkin, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
• The job introduces Tom to a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
• Tom accepts the job and takes a first step into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2023
• The last factor in the deceit was the viewer’s own mind and its faulty assumptions.
  — Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
• The point is how these people see themselves and their lives, through veils of delusion and deceit.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• Rosen added that Sloane's deceit is worse than Huffman's.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
• The political left and right still fall victim to the deceit of the Alger myth.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Though in response to our complaint, Google doubled down on the deceit.
  — David Monahan, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
• Her character falls in love with a body builder (Katy O’Brian) who gets caught up in a mess of murder and deceit.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
  — Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• How can these shills face their followers after all the lies and deceit?
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• The plots of love and deceit get pretty Shakespearean, for better and worse.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Like a Ponzi scheme or a magic trick, his best work is founded on the cornerstone of deceit.
  — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
• He was charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
  — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2021
• Sarah Treleaven attempts to follow the trail of fraud and deceit.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2022
• In the end, the Hart family's idyllic public image eclipsed a decade of deceit.
  — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• Lomeli was charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
  — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2021
• The set, released on Jan. 21, brims with burning tales of nostalgia, pain and deceit.
  — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
• Eisenhower’s deceit was an epiphany: the chill wind of realpolitik foretold the end of what we’d been taught since first grade.
  — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• The camera presents their evidence as fact, forcing the audience to unpick the truth from the lies and deceit.
  — CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
• Writers of crime fiction soon grasped that the more obscure the acts of deceit, the better the literary journey.
  — Richard O’Rawe, WSJ, 10 June 2022
• To pull off such a deceit, the beetle larvae need to coordinate to produce enough pheromones to lure in a bee.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2018
• The one-paragraph oath says workers will try to prevent fraud, deceit or abuse on voting day.
  — Charles Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024