Sample sentences for DECEPTION

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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.

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.)

She discovered his deception just last week.

deception = act of deceiving

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

deception = something that is misleading

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

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