(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is of course important that migrants are not scapegoated; but such pious deceit from comfortable middle-class commentators can only provoke the unemployed, the low-paid and the homeless.
(2) Gillon rejects each of these arguments, contending that avoiding deceit is a basic moral norm that can be defended from utilitarian as well as deontological points of view.
(3) They received more than 25,000 applications, prompting fury from fans, and Greater Manchester police said yesterday they were exploring whether any action could be taken against people who had deceitfully applied for tickets .
(4) In return for the biggest bailout in global financial history – rescue funds from the EU and IMF amounting to €240bn (£188bn) – it was hoped that old mentalities would change and a nation humbled by near-bankruptcy would finally dump its culture of deceit.
(5) Their evolution often is deceitful and severe problems of differential diagnosis with others pathological infantile states arise.
(6) It would only apply to adults over 18 who were working without coercion, deceit or violence.
(7) The renewable energy company Ecotricity is giving £250,000 to the Labour party, and has accused the government of being deceitful on climate and energy policy.
(8) The charges announced today describe a securities fraud trifecta of lies, deceit, and greed.
(9) The City Fathers, who drive through an abandoned city to their glass towers, who were not impacted but enjoyed the tax dollars and developments of downtown; and Freddie Gray’s community, full of holes and deceit and poverty.
(10) Eric Schneiderman has accused Barclays of “a systematic pattern of fraud and deceit” by operating its dark pool to favour high-frequency traders.
(11) Fidel called President Obama's conference remarks ' deceitful, demagogic and ambiguous ,'" a cable said.
(12) His passing is sweet and it is really interesting how deceitful he can be: Rodríguez can look absent from the game but can pounce and catch his markers unaware.
(13) In a campaign founded on deceit and incompetence, this might be the least galling thing Trump and company have done.
(14) If you think that such deceits are the normal stuff of politics, consider the story's sequel.
(15) Sterling accused Johnson, a basketball legend turned investor and one of the US's most beloved African Americans, of deceitfulness and promiscuity.
(16) But I’m worried because the other side is cunning, deceitful and back-stabbing.
(17) Hancock and Bianca Rinehart allege their mother acted "deceitfully" and with "gross dishonesty" in her dealings with the trust, set up in 1988 by her father, Lang Hancock, with her children as the beneficiaries.
(18) From the 10-year-old boy assaulted when he met Jimmy Savile outside a hotel to ask for an autograph, to the many children abused in their schools after writing to Jim'll Fix It, the victims of one of the country's most prolific, manipulative and deceitful paedophiles, had one thing in common; their absolute vulnerability.
(19) Reprising the theme that guided him and George Bush through the deceit and carnage of the "war on terror", the former prime minister took his crusade against "Islamism" on to a new plane.
(20) Woody Allen has struck back against allegations he molested Dylan Farrow in a blistering reply that accuses Mia Farrow of spite, deceit and hatefulness.
Reliance
Definition:
(n.) The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.
(n.) Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(2) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(3) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
(4) The causes of failure after acute injury include extensive local soft tissue and bony damage, severe concomitant head, chest or abdominal wounding, stubborn reliance on negative arteriograms in patients with probable arterial injury, failure to repair simultaneous venous injuries, or harvesting of a vein graft from a severely damaged extremity.
(5) Swinney admitted in that confidential memo that the "ageing profile of our population" and Scotland's reliance on volatile oil revenues could mean serious cost pressures on an independent state's spending.
(6) In 1967, the Tanganyika African National Union, now Tanzania, adopted socialism and self-reliance as its national policy.
(7) They didn’t want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of ‘British values’ culture.” Between 1979 and 2013, 1.6m council homes were sold, numbers of new homes plummeted and council housing went from an inbuilt part of the post-war settlement to something pushed to the social margins.
(8) The most specific definitions of heart failure are those obtained towards the end of the disease process, but reliance upon these means that, although few cases are misclassified, only manifest cases can be detected.
(9) Some didactic implications concerning the significance of the chance set-up and reliance on analogies are discussed.
(10) For the present, prudent clinical practice should include avoidance of whole blood, fresh frozen plasma, and platelet transfusions and greater reliance on autologous blood transfusions.
(11) Critics argue that the idea is an expensive and probably unworkable smokescreen for continued reliance on fossil fuels.
(12) The possible reasons for this, apart from poverty and malnutrition, are ignorance, fear and prejudice in availing themselves of public health services and reliance on bomohs and handiwomen and fatalism.
(13) Compensation may not last, and too much reliance on it shifts the risk of reform to people who are least able to bear it.” Australians need to pay higher indirect taxes to fund welfare, KPMG says Read more The welfare lobby group commissioned the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Natsem) to quantify the impact of various policy shifts on different possible changes: A straight increase in the GST from 10% to 15%, which would raise an extra $29bn a year, costing the poorest families 7% of their disposable income and the richest 3.6% Extending the GST to fresh food, which raise an additional $7.1bn a year, costing the lowest-income families 2% of their disposable income (about $537 a year) and the richest families 0.6% (about $937 a year) Extending the GST to fresh food, education, health and water and sewerage, raising $18.6bn a year and costing 4.6% of the disposable incomes of the poorest ($1,199 a year) and 6.6% of the richest ($2,904).
(14) We warn against the reliance on heart rate and thoracic impedance monitoring alone for infants with recurrent apnea.
(15) He also told MPs the Libya campaign had shown Nato's over reliance on the US, and how it had "cruelly exposed" the limitations of the capabilities of some European countries.
(16) But a report by consulting firm Pöyry for Europe's oil and gas industry shows the reliance on Russian gas will increase to 50% by 2050 regardless of whether shale gas is part of the mix or not.
(17) MacFarlane is often criticised for over-reliance on pop-culture references.
(18) Conclusions regarding the physiological basis and disruptive effects of premenstrual symptoms may be biased because of the reliance on self-report questionnaires as a source of data.
(19) Reliance on ultrasonography for diagnosis in the 1980s resulted in fewer 'tumours' being felt; diagnostic delay was not shortened overall but serial ultrasonography showed evolving lesions in six patients.
(20) By recognizing the importance of mentorship in professional development, by being sensitive to some of the common barriers to its implementation, and by taking forthright steps to encourage its use, a greater reliance on mentorship can be exercised to the benefit of our profession.