When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit."
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Deceit
//dɪˈsiːt//
Synonyms for "deceit" (136 found)
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Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (40)
Related words (68)
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More general
6 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
142 translations across 62 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- mashtrim noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δόλωμα noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- ἀπάτη noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- ἀπάτη noun (act or fact of deceiving)
Arabic
2 entries- خَدْع noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- خِدَاع noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Armenian
1 entries- խաբեբայություն noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- aldatma noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- hiylə noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Basque
1 entries- iruzur noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Belarusian
1 entries- падма́н noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Bengali
2 entries- প্রবঞ্চনা noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- ফাঁকি noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изма́ма noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- лъжа́ noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 欺騙 /欺骗 noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Czech
1 entries- podvod noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Dutch
2 entries- bedriegerij noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- bedrog noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Esperanto
1 entries- mistifiko noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Estonian
1 entries- pettus noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Faroese
1 entries- svik noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Finnish
4 entries- harhautus noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- huijaus noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- huijaus noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- huiputus noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
French
4 entries- fraude noun (legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact)
- ruse noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- tromperie noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- tromperie noun (act or fact of deceiving)
Galician
1 entries- engano noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
German
4 entries- Betrug noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- Betrug noun (legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact)
- Betrügerei noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- Falschheit noun (state of being deceptive)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐌴𐌹 noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Greek
3 entries- απάτη noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- απάτη noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- απάτη noun (state of being deceptive)
Hebrew
1 entries- רַמָּאוּת noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Hindi
4 entries- छल noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- छल noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- छलावा noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- धोखा noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Hungarian
3 entries- megtévesztés noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- megtévesztés noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- megtévesztő noun (state of being deceptive)
Irish
2 entries- meang noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- meang noun (act or fact of deceiving)
Italian
4 entries- falsità noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- inganno noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- malafede noun (legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact)
- mendacità noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Japanese
2 entries- 欺瞞 noun (state of being deceptive)
- 詐欺 noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Kabuverdianu
2 entries- fantuxada noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- fantuxada noun (state of being deceptive)
Kazakh
1 entries- алдау noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Khmer
1 entries- ការបោកប្រាស់ noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Korean
4 entries- 기만 noun (state of being deceptive)
- 사기 noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- 속임 noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- 속임수 noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- алдоо noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Latin
2 entries- dolus noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- fraus noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Latvian
1 entries- maldināšana noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Lithuanian
1 entries- apgavystė noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Macedonian
1 entries- измама noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Malay
1 entries- penipuan noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Middle English
1 entries- ymagynynge noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- fêl noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- hîle noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- lêhb noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Odia
1 entries- ତଞ୍ଚକତା noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Ossetian
1 entries- фӕлывд noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Persian
2 entries- فریب noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- گول noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Polish
2 entries- oszustwo noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- podstęp noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Portuguese
3 entries- fraude noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- logro noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- velhacaria noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Romanian
4 entries- decepție noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- fraudă noun (legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact)
- înșelăciune noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- înșelătorie noun (act or fact of deceiving)
Russian
4 entries- лжи́вость noun (state of being deceptive)
- обма́н noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- обма́н noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- обма́н noun (legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact)
Sanskrit
1 entries- कपट noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prijȇvara noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- prȅvara noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- ȍbmana noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- о̏бмана noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Slovak
1 entries- podvod noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Slovene
1 entries- prevara noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Spanish
4 entries- bellaquería noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- decebimiento (disused) noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- dolo noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- dolo noun (legal: fraudulent representation of a material fact)
Swedish
3 entries- bedrägeri noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- bedrägeri noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- bedräglighet noun (state of being deceptive)
Tajik
1 entries- фиреб noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Tatar
2 entries- алдак noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- алдау noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Telugu
3 entries- దగా noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- మోసగించుట noun (act or fact of deceiving)
- మోసము noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Thai
1 entries- การหลอกลวง noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Turkish
3 entries- aldatma noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- hile noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- kandırma noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Turkmen
1 entries- aldaw noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Ukrainian
1 entries- обма́н noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Urdu
2 entries- دھوکا noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- فریب noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئالداش noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Uzbek
2 entries- aldash noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
- firib noun (act or behavior intended to deceive)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
She is incapable of deceit.
Source: tatoeba (312625)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Source: tatoeba (451397)
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
Source: tatoeba (714826)
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