Deceit vs. Trickery

Deceitnoun

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

Deceitnoun

An act of deceiving someone.

Deceitnoun

(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

Deceitnoun

(legal) 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.

Deceitnoun

An 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; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.

Deceitnoun

Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

Deceitnoun

the quality of being fraudulent

Deceitnoun

a misleading falsehood

Deceitnoun

the act of deceiving

Deceitnoun

the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth

Trickerynoun

(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.

Trickerynoun

(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.

Trickerynoun

(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

Trickerynoun

(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.

Trickerynoun

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Trickerynoun

verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Trickerynoun

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)