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What is a deceit?

What is a deceit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
  2. An act of deceiving someone
  3. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
  4. (law) 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.
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It is to help those who have fallen for the lies and deceit of quack medicine and pseudoscience.
I have to face these facts, so that I won't cling on to the deceit he spun around me.
There has been some doubt expressed in the past as to the existence of a limitation period for the tort of fraud or deceit.
Of course, the electorate are increasingly seeing through the lies and deceit of Labour.
Both couples suffer in unhappy marriages, and they deal with their situations through denial, deceit, and savage personal attacks.
The Prime Minister has been manning the barricades in defence of Mr Byers, who is charged with manipulation and deceit.

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