How to Use deceit in a Sentence

deceit

noun

• By the end of Season 2, all of her lies and deceit start to catch up with her.
  — Moises Mendez Ii, Time, 20 Sep. 2022
• The end is near for the Byrde family and their epic web of lies and deceit.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• Gone, too, was the idea that the court must be protected from such deceit.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• The scale of the deceit has begun to emerge, and the ground is about to literally turn on them.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• Tom accepts the job and takes a first step into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2023
• The last factor in the deceit was the viewer’s own mind and its faulty assumptions.
  — Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
• The political left and right still fall victim to the deceit of the Alger myth.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Her character falls in love with a body builder (Katy O’Brian) who gets caught up in a mess of murder and deceit.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• Sarah Treleaven attempts to follow the trail of fraud and deceit.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2022
• The set, released on Jan. 21, brims with burning tales of nostalgia, pain and deceit.
  — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
• The camera presents their evidence as fact, forcing the audience to unpick the truth from the lies and deceit.
  — CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
• Writers of crime fiction soon grasped that the more obscure the acts of deceit, the better the literary journey.
  — Richard O’Rawe, WSJ, 10 June 2022
• The one-paragraph oath says workers will try to prevent fraud, deceit or abuse on voting day.
  — Charles Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022
• In that sense, in some ways my music is like taking on mounting feelings of deceit or guilt.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 20 June 2023
• These five days of deceit and dysfunction don’t stand alone and won’t end with this argument.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
• When the couples return home, there's drama, deceit and questions about how their love can last.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• This would not be the first time the United States talked to a nefarious regime with a history of deceit in order to stop a war.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
• Wye has already reckoned with the world to defend her existence and wants no part in the deceit Paul strings to hide her truth and love her in half measures.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• Kaitlan Collins made a heroic effort to keep up with Trump’s firehose of deceit and treachery.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• At the end of the test, Larson paused to examine the records, scanning the waving lines for swings in blood pressure and heart rate that might indicate deceit.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• There is no room for such deceit at the Neue Nationalgalerie.
  — Anthony Paletta, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• Few public figures mistrusted them, and this proved to be a useful screen for deceit.
  — Amy Froide, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
• Euthanasia has come to Canada dressed up in euphemisms and deceit.
  — Daniel Dorman, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024
• But the trail of deceit apparently went much further back.
  — Adam Taylor, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
• What seemed like an earnest attempt at rebranding himself as a Gen-X yacht-rock prince turns out to be just a few choppy waves of deceit.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 July 2021
• After months of deceit and deception, the pathetic spectacle of a man who has run out of road.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2022
• There's all of this awesome stuff—and speculation, and scams, and deceit, and everything.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 19 June 2022
• Britain's bigger deceit in Helmand was saying that its troops were winning.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
• Deep beneath this rich soil — and layers of deceit — lie a trillion dollars worth of rare-earth elements.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• There is no snark, no cynicism, no deceit or retribution in Chirri and Chirra’s world.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 June 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024