deceit

Significat (Anglès)

1. (countable, uncountable) An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
2. (countable, uncountable) An act of deceiving someone.
3. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
4. (countable, uncountable) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.

Conceptes

engany

mentida

frau

fraudulència

fingiment

dissimulació

dol

picardia

enganyar

farsa

Sinònims

fraud

deception

trick

guile

cheating

trickery

lie

cunning

cheat

pretence

imposture

treachery

decoy

falsehood

canard

dishonesty

dissimulation

swindle

sham

craft

delusion

stratagem

fraudulence

duplicity

hypocrisy

deceitfulness

wile

betrayal

lies

hoax

chicanery

deceiving

imposition

humbug

double-dealing

indirection

artifice

scam

denial

pretense

bluff

roguery

misrepresentation

chicane

falsity

lying

perfidy

deceive

fallacy

dupery

Traduccions

engaño

tromperie

inganno

Betrug

απάτη

fraude

hile

xapandin

xap

lêb

xirrandin

hîle

qîle

bedrog

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dɪˈsiːt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: deceyte

In summary

From Middle English deceyte, from Old French deceite, deçoite, from decevoir (“to deceive”), from Latin dēcipere (“to cheat, mislead”).