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Deceit is behaviour meant to make someone believe what is not true. It is not always one small lie in passing; it is the trick, the covering-up, the plan behind the false story. A person can act with deceit, or a whole situation can be full of deceit. It is a little more formal and serious than lying or tricking, so you hear it in news, in law, and in talk about character. People stretch it in set phrases: a web of deceit is many lies tied together. Unlike a white lie told to spare feelings, deceit is meant to take something or to hide the truth on purpose — and it is always a bad thing.
欺騙、欺瞞
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deceitnoun/dɪˈsiːt/
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An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
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An act of deceiving someone.
- Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father.
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The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- [T]he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.
- His mouth is full of curſing, and deceit, and fraud : vnder his tongue is miſchiefe and vanitie.
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lawThe 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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rareA group of lapwings.
- Deceits of lapwings were preparing to migrate
- These birds belonged to a deceit of lapwings that had been displaced from their tract of grasslands and marshy grounds by a housing development.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。