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deception
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The Women of Brewster Place
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- It is silent and elusive, refusing to be dammed and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the consciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.†
p. 35.8deceptive = misleading
- Etta and Mattie had taken totally different roads that with all of their deceptive winding had both ended up on Brewster Place.†
p. 60.9 *
- Out of necessity they stitched all of their secret fears and lingering childhood nightmares into this existence, because even though it was deceptive enough to try and look as they looked, talk as they talked, and do as they did, it had to have some hidden stain to invalidate it—it was impossible for them both to be right.†
p. 132.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(deception) the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)