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Definition
the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads- The law is intended to defeat denial and deception strategies.
deception = deceiving or misleading
- The company uses deceptive advertising.
- She discovered his deception just last week.
- Is it possible, child, that the spirits you have seen are illusion only, some deception that may cross your mind when—Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.Leo Rosten
- The deception outraged him.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
- All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.Sun-Tzu
- Yes; the little deception could do no harm, and everything would come out right and pleasant in the end, anyway.Twain, Mark -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
- To keep up the deception as to his force, he ordered, at night, a number of extra fires to be made in his camp...Irving, Washington -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
- let her own eyes satisfy her that there is no deception this time.Collins, Wilkie -- The Woman in White
- There is this deception between me and everything.Cather, Willa -- Alexander's Bridge
- There are many deceptions and delusions in nature that serve a purpose.Anton Chekhov -- Home
- They are known for their deceptions.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- The more he thought of this long passage of his life, the more clearly he saw his deception.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Society and solitude are deceptive names.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Society and Solitude
- The wisest man might be deceived as you were; and, under such a deception, the best must have acted just as you did.Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
- All you have lived for and still live for is falsehood and deception, hiding life and death from you.Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- She was becoming him, sick with deception, wallowing in her own desperation to live, even if it meant the death of herself.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
- The Germans find the documents; the deception wins the war.Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
- This is not thy deception, nor thy witchcraft: it is the work of nature.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
deceptive = misleading
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)
deception = act of deceiving
deception = something that is misleading
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)
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