Deceit

(n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.

(n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

克莱夫整理

• What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit,espionage, and treachery? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Neither shall they be told of such things as thieves or murderers; much less shall they hear anything about falsehood and deceit. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Will he, in the language of Pindar, make justice his high tower, or fortify himself with crooked deceit? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Really I have made by my talk this molehill of a Caliphronas into a mountain of dissimulation and deceit. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Guileless himself, Adrian feared no deceit. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was a life of deceit! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The greater the accumulation of deceit and trouble in the world, the brighter and the purer shone the star of Dora high above the world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It was a hard matter to preserve the innocent deceit of which they were profoundly unsuspicious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Use no hurtful deceit: think innocently and justly: and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Adrian's soul was painted in his countenance, and concealment or deceit were at the antipodes to the dreadless frankness of his nature. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Deceit is not my fault! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Emily, my girl,' said Wardle reproachfully, 'I detest meanness and deceit; this is unjustifiable and indelicate in the highest degree. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

戴维斯整理