Deceit vs Honesty - What's the difference?
deceit | honesty |
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
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.
honor, decency, propriety.
Chastity.
(label) The act, quality, or condition of being honest
(label) Any of various crucifers in the genus , several of which are grown as ornamentals.
In uncountable terms the difference between deceit and honesty
is that deceit is the state of being deceitful or deceptive while honesty is the act, quality, or condition of being honest.As nouns the difference between deceit and honesty
is that deceit is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick while honesty is honor, decency, propriety.deceit
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* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .