Both Uses of
deception
in
The Time Machine
- But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded.†
Chpt 6 *
- I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(deception) the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads