Deceit vs. Trumpery

Deceitnoun

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

‘The whole conversation was merely a deceit.’;

Trumperynoun

Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.

Deceitnoun

An act of deceiving someone.

Trumperynoun

Nonsense.

Deceitnoun

(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

Trumperynoun

(obsolete) Deceit; fraud.

Deceitnoun

(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.

Trumperyadjective

Gaudy but worthless.

Deceitnoun

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.

‘Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit.’; ‘Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile.’; ‘Yet still we hug the dear deceit.’;

Trumperynoun

Deceit; fraud.

Deceitnoun

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.

Trumperynoun

Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.

‘The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,for state to catch these thieves.’; ‘Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.’;

Deceitnoun

the quality of being fraudulent

Trumperyadjective

Worthless or deceptive in character.

Deceitnoun

a misleading falsehood

Trumperynoun

nonsensical talk or writing

Deceitnoun

the act of deceiving

Trumperynoun

ornamental objects of no great value

Deceitnoun

the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth

‘a web of deceit’; ‘a series of lies and deceits’; ‘hypocrisy and deceit were anathema to her’;