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."

  • In his speech last August, Clinton used weasel words and passive verbs to minimize his deceit.

  • An op-ed in the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong said that "despite all the mess, the killing, the corruption and deceit, Indonesia is engaging in a more open and competitive political process than ever before."

  • Regardless of whether he committed any criminal act, Clinton should quit if he had sex with Lewinsky and lied to America about it: "It would confirm a clear pattern of Clintonite behavior, one of reckless risk-taking followed by deceit.

  • 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.


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