Examples of deceit

• The adults pose defensively against possible picnic "deceit," the inherent treachery of which is unclear.

• In short, the spectator remains unusually conscious of the relationship between performance and pretence, between disguise and deceit.

• Women, worried at husbands' deceit, condemned wage-earning men as impotent, unable to fulfill marital duties.

• There are discussions of pretence, exaggeration, and deceit in this context, and so on.

• Although the existence of mimicry and deceit is arguable, several observations support that interpretation.

• Williams suggests there are evolved communicative tendencies that regulate such expressions; hence, the issue of detecting lying and deceit becomes essential for her analysis.

• In this play the train is an ever-present image of political deceit and relentless movement towards war.

• But at least within the edicts of realism what we seek is truthfulness, not deceit.