Deceit In A Sentence

Q: How to use deceit in a sentence?

1. The deceit was not discovered. 2. The deceit of both of them hurt her immensely. 3. For deceit savours of meanness. 4. He must think her deceit itself. 5. When deceit was so easy it ceased to be a temptation.

How To Use Deceit In A Sentence?

She had met deceit with deceit, and at dawn he was to wait for her at the wood end.
So as they appear insidious in deceit and fatal in the combat, they have served their end.
There is no taint of untruth or deceit there, mother; they are worthy of their race.
That indignation which we profess to feel at deceit absolute, is indeed only at deceit malicious.
The ideal he had worshiped lay stricken; falsehood and deceit marked its fair form.
But please try to remember that I am accusing you of deceit and disgusting duplicity.
But, for one thing, the deceit was practised by a master hand, and might have gulled an angel.
He called him a mocker of the Homeric deceit because he had scoffed at the deceit in Homer.
I must reap as I have sown; the fruits of disobedience and deceit could never beget happiness.
But if thy words are false and cunning, But if thou plannest a deceit ... Have mercy.
There was an aura of treachery and deceit about them as they distanced themselves from the rest of the guests.
An essential attribute of the boldest and most picturesque of that gentry was the quality of deceit and subterfuge and hypocrisy.

The danger of deceit is of course less imminent when not the family but the patient himself takes the initiative.
By treachery and deceit they had overcome those who were their proper leaders, and they were even now about to put them to a cruel death.
At first they made sure of those who had borne arms; with lies and deceit they were enticed into a trap.
He had trusted his wife so blindly; the possibility of deceit or of treachery on her part had never entered into his mind.
Dee followed cautiously on, keeping a wary eye on his leader lest some deceit or stratagem should be intended.
The practice of deceit would actually appear to obstruct clear-sightedness and dull the ordinary exercise of common sense.
Rose Euclid and her youthful worshipper were no worse off than they had been before being victimised by the deceit of the telephone-call.
Here was a man who for years had been living in deceit and making an unworthy use of the Sacraments.
Mademoiselle listened to him, feigned to be satisfied with his explanation, in fact, met deceit with deceit.
All the explanations in the world would not square him now, for one deceit follows another and his second word was no better than his first.
He was a man who, while he wilfully deceived himself, was too selfish to understand his deceit might chance to prove the ruin of other people.
Then shall oppression be driven from the earth, like the thunder-clouds by the storm-wind, and all deceit will cease to have any more power.

People, who knew, rarely attempted it; strangers occasionally did, misled by the deceit of appearances.
I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.
The liquid likeness of his wavering face, And tremulous deceit of imag'd grace.
What there is difficult to understand about her, why she should be accused of deceit and have her conduct explained, I can hardly guess.
In the vaulting of a Gothic roof it is no deceit to throw the strength into the ribs of it, and make the intermediate vault a mere shell.