Example sentences for: deceit

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

  • The more important concessions, however, were 1) Liggett's admission that the industry had consciously marketed tobacco to minors (which will increase congressional support for stiff regulation of the industry) and 2) its release--temporarily blocked by a North Carolina court--of documents from strategy meetings among lawyers for the five biggest tobacco companies, which industry critics believe will prove a conspiracy of deceit.

  • 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."

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

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


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