English-Czech translations for deceit

• podvod
  EU je založena na překrucování, podvodech a lžích. The EU is founded on misrepresentation, deceit and lies.
  Sami jsme dovolili, aby nás obloudili lidé, kteří budují majetek na podvodech. We allowed ourselves to be deluded by people who built fortunes on deceit.
  Upřímně řečeno, to, v čem jste se angažovali, není nic lepšího než obrovský podvod. Frankly, what you have been engaged upon is nothing better than a giant deceit.

Definition of deceit

• An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
• An act of deceiving someone
• The state of being deceitful or deceptive
• The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury

Examples

• The whole conversation was merely a deceit.

Related words

• deceitful
• deceitfully
• wilful deceit
• willful deceit