Clues for the word "DECEIT"
We've had 36 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 86 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on August 12, 2026.
Definition of 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.
Referring Clues
- Trickery
- Falseness
- Whitewash
- Iago's specialty
- Scammer's skill
- Double dealing
- Fraud
- Double-dealing
- Con artist's art
- Chicanery
- Scheming behavior
- Cheating
- What scammers practice
- Dishonest trick
- Lying
- Duplicity
- Lies
- Smoke and mirrors, say
- Subterfuge
- Perfidy
- Con man's forte
- Trickery to mislead
- What con artists practice
- Used to sneak into 21-and-over show
- Misrepresentation
- Fraud bound to include city in upset
- Pretence
- Charlatan's specialty
- Bound up with the church in fraud
- God almost frames the Church for fraud
- Deception
- Dishonesty
- Fraudulence
- Fraud, trick
- Good liar's skill
- Web of lies
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - August 12, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2025
- LA Times - June 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 31, 2025
- USA Today - February 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2023
- USA Today - March 31, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 10, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 21, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2018
- Netword - November 07, 2017
- LA Times - October 12, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 12, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 09, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - June 27, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - June 02, 2017
- And in 56 more crossword puzzles...