All 8 Uses

deception
in
The Black Widow
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The officers of Alpha Group were skilled practitioners in the art of deception.†
p. 17.9

deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
Housekeeping, the Office division that acquired and maintained safe properties, was on good, if entirely deceptive, terms with the château's owner.†
p. 184.9

deceptive = misleading
There was precedent for what they were doing; during World War II, British intelligence kept an entire network of captured German spies alive and functioning in the minds of their Abwehr controllers, feeding them false and deceptive intelligence in the process.†
p. 208.9
Dr. Leila Hadawi was no ordinary recruit, however, and so she packed with deception in mind— summer dresses of the kind worn by promiscuous Europeans, revealing swimwear, erotic undergarments.†
p. 242.1

deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
She was the decoy, the deception, the pretty clean face.†
p. 268.3
You and Safia were a feint, a deception.†
p. 463.9
She lied with the full confidence that Saladin could see no telltale trace of deception in her eyes.†
p. 473.7 *
Rousseau, said the newspaper, was the chief of something called Alpha Group, an ultra-secret counterterrorism unit known for deception and dirty tricks.†
p. 485.4

Definitions:

(1) (deception)
the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)