Word Meanings - LOSENGERIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.

TRICKERY
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
FLATTERY
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
DECEITFUL
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
DECEITLESS
Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.
DECEITFULLY
With intent to deceive.
DECEIT
Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation. Syn. -- Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity;
DECEITFULNESS
1. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. 2. The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices. 3. Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.
SELF-DECEIT
The act of deceiving one's self, or the state of being self- deceived; self-deception.