English-Finnish translations for deceit

• petos
  Petos tulee osittain Moskovan hallituksen virallisesta propagandasta. The deceit is partly the product of official government propaganda in Moscow.
  Arvoisa puhemies, petos on Koraanissa taqiyya-opin mukaan hyväksytty sota-ase. Mr President, deceit is a weapon of war approved of in the Koran under the doctrine of taqiyya.
  Libanoniin viedystä elävästä nautakarjasta maksettuihin valtavan suuriin tukiin, noin 52 miljoonaan euroon, liittyy todennäköisesti petos. Deceit is probably involved in the enormous subsidies – to the tune of EUR 52 million – paid for the export of live cattle to Lebanon.
• huijaus
  Suoraan sanottuna toimintanne ei ole mitään muuta kuin jättimäinen huijaus. Frankly, what you have been engaged upon is nothing better than a giant deceit.
• vilppi
• harhautus
• huiputus
• petosyritys
• vilpillisyys

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