Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Deceit (n.) 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.
(2) - Deceit (n.) 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.

(1) - Deceitful (a.) Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.

(1) - Deceitfully (adv.) With intent to deceive.

(1) - Deceitfulness (n.) Tendency to mislead or deceive.
(2) - Deceitfulness (n.) The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
(3) - Deceitfulness (n.) The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.