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tromperie — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deceit noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
  • deception noun An action or scheme designed to make someone believe something untrue.
  • fallacy noun A mistaken belief, especially one based on flawed reasoning.
  • guile noun Clever, often sly or dishonest, cunning used to deceive or manipulate.
  • sham adjective Fake or intended to deceive; not genuine.

Senses

tromperie is used for these senses in English:

  • deceit An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
  • deceit (law) 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.
  • deception An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
  • fallacy Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
  • guile Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
  • sham Trickery, hoaxing.

deceit — full definition

  1. noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
  2. noun In law, a false statement made knowingly or recklessly to trick someone into relying on it, causing them harm.

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