Sample Sentences for
deception
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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)
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    The bright blue sky was deceptive, and the frozen sidewalk crunched beneath their feet.†  (source)
    standard 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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    Except for a car parked at the street curb directly in front, everything looked deceptively normal.†  (source)
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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)
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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)
    standard 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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    It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette.†  (source)
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    But when you looked him in the eye you realized that his frailty was deceptive.†  (source)
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    It was deceptively smooth, but it had the strength to drag a man under in a heartbeat.†  (source)
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    However, like all dangerous deceptions, the lies that clappers tell themselves wear seductive disguises.†  (source)
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    This pattern of deception has to do with cultural pressure.†  (source)
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