(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.
Seta
Definition:
(n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.
(n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.
(n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lutzomyia is "defined" by thoracic pleural setae and a cibarial bulge, both of which states occur on Old World forms.
(2) Additional observations on some fine structures of Demodex folliculorum under SEM were presented in this paper, including supracoxal spines, hypostome, palpal claws, male and female podosomal setae, leg claw-basal spur, femoral spur, etc.
(3) N-1 methylation of benzo-alpha-carbolines performed with Kitasatosporia setae strain yields corresponding benzo-alpha-iso-carbolines, compounds demonstrating relatively strong cytostatic and antitumor properties.
(4) The large plumose setae are studied in Palaemon serratus (Decapoda) and Sphaeroma serratum (Isopoda) during premolt.
(5) Caminacarus terrapenae differs from the above species by the form of the dorsal shield which extends more anteriorly but lacks anterior winglike elongations and has rounded anterolateral margins, the posteriorly concave shape of the genital sclerite and more sclerotized vaginal wall, the anterodorsal wall of the gnathosomal base which is not ringlike but open with lateral sclerotizations and interior punctations in this species, and structure of the tarsal setae with the presence of smaller heavier setae.
(6) Three types of setae were found on the antenna of workers of C. formosanus.
(7) Larva differs from I. trianguliceps in longer setae of alloscutum, longer ventrolateral tooth of 1st palpal joint and longer medial tooth of coxae I.
(8) The setae and parapodia of Eurythoe complanata, Chloeia flava and Pherecardia striata were examined using histological and scanning electron microscope techniques.
(9) Numerous tegumental pores surrounding setae in surface tubercles are shown.
(10) After larvae hatch, portions of the egg coats and the attachment stalks are retained on the ovigerous setae until the female undergoes her next molt.
(11) The longest setae (sensilla trichodea) are thick walled, socketed, mononeuronic, and non-perforated.
(12) The new species is most similar to Tinaminyssus melloi (Castro) 1948 and T. turturi (Fain) 1962, but differs in (1) possessing only 5 pairs of ventral opisthosomal setae, (2) presence of 3 pairs of enlarged setae on the dorsal opisthosoma at the posterolateral margin of the podosomal plate (1 pair) and at the lateral margins of the opisthosomal plate (2 pairs), (3) elongate shape and larger size of the poststigmatic plates, and (4) chaetotaxy and solenidiotaxy of the legs, especially tarsus I with a cluster of 4 solenida and 1 club-shaped solenidion on the apex of the dorsum.
(13) The differential diagnosis, particularly in comparison with the closely related genera Liga and Amoebotaenia, is presented: Liga possesses an atrial bundle of setae and Amoebotaenia 1 row of well built hooks with a typical blade.
(14) The morphological structure of the spicules and setae of the mandibular brushes and combs and the maxillary brushes are described.
(15) Female swimmerets contain many long "smooth hairs" (long simple setae) on the coxa and rami.
(16) An expert system (SETA) for the management of patients in the CCU environment has been developed.
(17) The fine structure of the integumentary glands and mechanoreceptory setae in Dermacentor marginatus nymphs is described.
(18) The raatio of setae containing cellular contents sthroughout the lumen to those condensed into strands separates stages A2 throught C3...
(19) The formation of brown bodies in the coelomic cavity may result from an aggregation of coelomocytes around offending foreign cells such as bacteria, gregarines, incompatible graft fragments, and altered self structures such as setae or necrotic muscle cells.
(20) Counts of setae in "aureate" (au), spontaneous autosomal recessive mutation of good penetrance and viability, show that the au gene causes a three-fold increase in setation over the normal in the visible abdominal sternites but not in the membranous wings of the tenebrionid flour beetle Tribolium castaneum.