DECEIT

[dɪ`siːt]

обман

хитрость; лживость

deceit: translation

The intentional attempt to mislead people. It gives rise to questions of definition (separating it from such neighbours as exaggeration, irony, parody) and to questions of justification. Many moral traditions separate the deliberate lie from the equally deliberate failure to tell the whole truth, it being thought that the former, an act, is worse, other things being equal, than the latter (see acts/omissions doctrine ). However, since each may involve the same end and the same strategy of manipulation of other people's opinion and action, the difference is difficult to defend in all cases. The absolutist position on lying is defended by Kant : it is an unconditional duty to tell the truth, come what may. Others urge that while in a perfect world this would be so, deceit may be justified when one is faced with the evil or the incompetent, or the need for self-defence in the face of injustice, or the need to promote sufficiently important goods. The difficulty is to defend a departure from the absolutist position that does not justify lying for the sake of mere expediency.

deceit: translation

deceit de‧ceit [dɪˈsiːt] noun [countable, uncountable]

behaviour that is intended to make someone believe something that is not true:

deceit UK US /dɪˈsiːt/ noun [U]

► dishonest or illegal methods used by a person or organization in order to get something or to make people believe that something is true when it is not: »

The company filed a legal claim alleging deceit and breach of contract.

deceit: translation

art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, blind, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, con game, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, craftiness, cunning, cute trick, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, design, device, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, expedient, fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, feint, fetch, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, furtiveness, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, guile, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, humbug, hypocrisy, indirection, insidiousness, intrigue, jugglery, knavery, little game, maneuver, misrepresentation, monkey business, move, overreaching, plot, ploy, racket, red herring, ruse, scam, scheme, sell, sham, shift, shiftiness, sleight, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, swindle, tactic, trapping, treacherousness, treachery, trick, trickery, underhandedness, wile, wily device

1. обман

2. уловка, трюк; хитрость; мошенническая проделка

3. лживость; хитрость

deceit [dɪˊsi:t] n

1) обма́н;

2) хи́трость

3) лжи́вость

deceit: übersetzung

deceit Täuschung f, betrügerische Handlung f, Betrug m

1) обман, намеренное введение в заблуждение

2) мошенническая проделка

• Deceit breeds deceit - Кто привык лгать, тому трудно отвыкать (K)