0 (an act of) keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage:
2 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 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.
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