Deceitfulness vs. Deceit

Deceitfulnessnoun

The state or quality of being deceitful.

Deceitfulnessnoun

The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

Deceitfulnessnoun

The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.

Deceitfulnessnoun

Tendency to mislead or deceive.

Deceitfulnessnoun

the quality of being crafty

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