Example sentences for: deceit

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

  • But when her web of lies begins to unravel and he calls her "pretty bird," she rolls her eyes in a gesture at once accepting of his flattery, aware of her deceit, and resentful of his condescension.

  • Metaphors, like magic tricks, may dazzle through deceit.

  • What may have caught Liggett's eye were: First, newly purloined documents from industry archives that revealed the magnitude of Big Tobacco's deceit about tobacco's role in addiction and disease; and second, the fact that a B&W scientist, Jeffrey Wigand, had gone over to the other side.

  • Only Clinton's public deceit is at issue.

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


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