All 4 Uses of
deception
in
David Copperfield
- To repay my confidence with systematic deception, for her sake, and quit me for her!†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Seriously apprehending that his malady would increase, unless we put some innocent deception upon him and caused him to believe that he was useful, or unless we could put him in the way of being really useful (which would be better), I made up my mind to try if Traddles could help us.†
Chpt 34-36
- Villainy is the matter; baseness is the matter; deception, fraud, conspiracy, are the matter; and the name of the whole atrocious mass is — HEEP!'†
Chpt 49-51
- Above all, I found that the most professing men were the greatest objects of interest; and that their conceit, their vanity, their want of excitement, and their love of deception (which many of them possessed to an almost incredible extent, as their histories showed), all prompted to these professions, and were all gratified by them.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(deception) the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads