the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating

Once she exposed their deceit, no one ever trusted them again.

an act or device intended to deceive; trick; stratagem.

the quality of being deceitful; duplicity; falseness

a man full of deceit.

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frankness , honesty , openness , truth , truthfulness , uprightness

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ambidexterity , ambidextrousness , artifice , cheating , chicane , chicanery , cozening , craft , craftiness , cunning , deceitfulness , deception , defrauding , dirty dealing , dirty pool * , dishonesty , dissemblance , dissimulation , double-dealing , duplicity , entrapping , fraud , fraudulence , guile , hypocrisy , imposition , overreaching , pretense , slyness , smoke and mirrors * , trapping , treachery , trickery , two-facedness , two-timing , underhandedness , blind , cheat , crocodile tears * , dirty trick , dirty work * , fake , feint , flimflam * , hoax , humbug , imposture , misrepresentation , ruse , sell , sellout , sham , shift , snow job * , soft soap * , spoof , stratagem , subterfuge , sweet talk * , swindle , trick , whitewash * , wile , shiftiness , circumvention , cozenage , delusion , fallacy , flimflam , imposture finesse , misleading , trumpery