Word Meanings - LOSENGERIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to LOSENGERIE)
- 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.