deceptionin a sentence
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The law is intended to defeat denial and deception strategies.deception = deceiving or misleading
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The company uses deceptive advertising.deceptive = misleading
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She discovered his deception just last week.deception = act of deceiving
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging. (source)deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone
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Is it possible, child, that the spirits you have seen are illusion only, some deception that may cross your mind when— (source)deception = something that is misleading
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But most of the paths were cheats and deceptions and led nowhere or to bad ends; and most of the passes were infested by evil things and dreadful dangers. (source)deceptions = misleading
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No one was hurt by her little deception.† (source)deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
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The bright blue sky was deceptive, and the frozen sidewalk crunched beneath their feet.† (source)deceptive = misleadingstandard suffix: 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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However, like all dangerous deceptions, the lies that clappers tell themselves wear seductive disguises.† (source)deceptions = instances of intentionally misleading; or things done to mislead
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Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character.† (source)deceptively = in a manner that is misleading
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Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one's perceptions, half way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh?† (source)deceptiveness = the state of being misleadingstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Partly because she'd thought it would be such a short-lived deception.† (source)deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
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It was deceptive, the sunshine—it promised more than it could actually deliver.† (source)deceptive = misleading
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To escape the wolf pack which all the other players became he created reverses and deceptions and acts of sheer mass hypnotism which were so extraordinary that they surprised even him; after some of these plays I would notice him chuckling quietly to himself, in a kind of happy disbelief.† (source)deceptions = instances of intentionally misleading; or things done to mislead
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Life in the county was deceptively green and quiet—but he soon discovered that the hood came in different shapes and sizes.† (source)deceptively = in a manner that is misleading
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This pattern of deception has to do with cultural pressure.† (source)deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
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