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: --
Or else appearance may be blamed as inherently deceitful, and the condition of the knower is then seen as constituting that deceit, as well as being constituted by it.
On the other hand, they have been recognized as prone to deceit and manipulation.
People are capable of deceit in their everyday lives, which is why evolution has also fitted us with ways of recognizing deceit in others.
They use words of deceit, subtilty and ambiguity.
Otherwise, efforts at cultural competency are merely token measures and signify institutional deceit.
The more tortuous the deceit, the more the spy becomes necessary to unpick its complexity.
They feel moral pressure to reduce the amount of deceit.
But at least within the edicts of realism what we seek is truthfulness, not deceit.
