Mislead vs Deceit - What's the difference?
mislead | deceit |
(literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
To deceptively trick into something wrong.
To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
* {{quote-book, year=1998, author=Mike Dixon-Kennedy, title=Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page=125, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=2U7okUE3PIcC&pg=PA125
, passage=Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father. }}
(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
* {{quote-book, year=1611, title=King James Bible, chapter=Psalms 10:7
, passage=His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.}}
(legal) 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.
As a verb mislead
is (literally) to lead astray, in a false direction.As a noun deceit is
an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.mislead
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Verb
(transitive)- ''The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin
Synonyms
* (lead in a false direction) misguide, misinform * (deceive by giving a false impression) deceive, delude, beguile, cheat * (trick into something wrong) seduceDerived terms
* misleading (pos a)References
* *Anagrams
* English irregular verbsdeceit
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .