Decay, n. Decline, decadence, declension, falling off, deterioration, degeneracy, caducity.
Decease, n. Demise, dying. See death.
Decease, v. n. Depart. See die.
Deceased, a. Dead, defunct, departed, gone, lost, late.
Deceit, n. Deception, fraud, imposition, imposture, finesse, artifice, duplicity, guile, trickery, chicanery, cozenage, cheating, double-dealing, crooked ways, dark ways, underhandedness, deceitfulness.
Deceitful, a.
- 1. Deceptive, delusive, illusive, illusory, fallacious, misleading, counterfeit, hollow, insidious.
- 2. Full of deceit, false, fraudulent, designing, insincere, trickish, tricky, wily, guileful, double, double-faced,
double-hearted.