Example sentences for: deceit

How can you use “deceit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Curiously, Richard Nixon, that archetype of political deceit, provides no ready example of résumé rewriting--unless you want to count "I am not a crook."

  • Indelicato (indelicate, unscrupulous) or Inganni ( inganno deceit) would do if one was not to be trusted, but Tagliavini ( tagliare to cut, vino `wine; in other words, one who would stoop to adulterating wine) had a certain extra punch.

  • e) Entangled allies and aides in his web of deceit.

  • I had embarked on a life of deceit involving the names of nature's own flora and fauna.

  • According to Richard Flores, “The term ‘rinche’ not only signifies mistrust or deceit, but also the violence and exploitation inflicted upon the Mexicano community by the Texas Rangers” (1992,171).


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