Deceit vs Misrepresentation - What's the difference?
deceit | misrepresentation | Synonyms |
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
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, 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
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(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.
Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
As nouns the difference between deceit and misrepresentation
is that deceit is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick while misrepresentation is erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.deceit
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .