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Deceit vs Backstabby - What's the difference?

deceit | backstabby |

As a noun deceit

is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

As an adjective backstabby is

(informal) characteristic of deceit and treachery.

deceit

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
    • The whole conversation was merely a deceit .
  • An act of deceiving someone
  • * {{quote-book, year=1998, author=Mike Dixon-Kennedy, title=Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page=125, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=2U7okUE3PIcC&pg=PA125
    • , passage=Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father. }}
  • (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
  • * {{quote-book, year=1611, title=King James Bible, chapter=Psalms 10:7
    • , passage=His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.}}
  • (legal) 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (act or behavior intended to deceive) trick, fraud * (act of deceiving) deception, trickery * (state of being deceptive) underhandedness, deceptiveness, deceitfulness, dissimulation, fraudulence, trickery * See also

    Derived terms

    * deceitful

    backstabby

    English

    Alternative forms

    * back-stabby

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) characteristic of deceit and treachery
  • * 2000 , Don Aucoin, "Live! From Lexington, It's Rachel Dratch", Boston Globe , 18 February 2000:
    • That would seem to be a recipe for constant tension but Dratch says that backstage at SNL is not a competitive backstabby kind of atmosphere.

    Synonyms

    * backstabbing