All 5 Uses of
deception
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Yet perchance to-morrow deception will so act on me, that I shall, on compulsion, consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness.†
Chpt 23-24 *
- The aperture was already sufficiently large for him to enter, but by waiting, he could still cling to hope, and retard the certainty of deception.†
Chpt 23-24
- The count's first idea was that this was an artifice—a gross deception, to draw his attention from a minor danger in order to expose him to a greater.†
Chpt 81-82
- Probabilities are deceptive.†
Chpt 85-86
- —a lover's deception, which the woman who has married that man ought certainly to forgive; but not so the lover who was to have married her.†
Chpt 89-90
Definition:
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(deception) the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads