Deceitfulness vs. Deceit — What's the Difference?

Given to cheating or deceiving.

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

Deliberately misleading; deceptive.

The act or practice of deceiving; deception.

The state or quality of being deceitful.

A stratagem; a trick.

The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.

The quality of being deceitful; falseness.

The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

Tendency to mislead or deceive.

An act of deceiving someone.

The quality of being crafty

(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

(law) 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.

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.

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.

The quality of being fraudulent

A misleading falsehood

The act of deceiving