DECEIT in a Sentence

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Similar to the above was the deceit practised by Pontius the Samnite commander to inveigle the Roman army into the Caudine Forks.

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 Meanings and Examples of DECEIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deceit
 n.  attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
2  He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
3  The greater the accumulation of deceit and trouble in the world, the brighter and the purer shone the star of Dora high above the world.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
4  Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  He vividly recalled all the constantly recurring instances of inevitable necessity for lying and deceit, which were so against his natural bent.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
6  He recalled particularly vividly the shame he had more than once detected in her at this necessity for lying and deceit.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
7  Vronsky could not understand how she, with her strong and truthful nature, could endure this state of deceit, and not long to get out of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 23
8  There is no deceit she would stick at.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
9  He felt that the husband was magnanimous even in his sorrow, while he had been base and petty in his deceit.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 18
10  All this was falsehood, disgusting, irreverent deceit.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
11  And owing to the bent of his character, and because he loved the dying man more than anyone else did, Levin was most painfully conscious of this deceit.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
12  On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, one thing only, innocence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
13  But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
14  There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 110. The Indictment.
15  Similar to the above was the deceit practised by Pontius the Samnite commander to inveigle the Roman army into the Caudine Forks.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XL.
Example Sentence:
1  He is above meanness and deceit.
2  It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
3  The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.
4  His deceit is disgusting; he took everybody in!
5  I advise you not to cooperate with that deceitful businessman.
6  His political opponents were able to tear off the show of sincerity that had been covering his deceitful intentions.
7  His political opponents tore away the show of sincerity covering his deceitful intention.