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deception::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deceit, misrepresentation |
| Type of | falsity, falsehood, untruth |
| Has types | bill of goods, blind, dissembling, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, feigning, fraudulence, half-truth, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, humbug, jiggery-pokery, magnification, overstatement, pretence, pretense, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snake oil, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, window dressing |
| Derivation | deceive |
deception::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | conjuration, conjuring trick, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
| Type of | performance |
| Has types | card trick, prestidigitation, sleight of hand |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deceit, dissembling, dissimulation |
| Type of | falsification, misrepresentation |
| Has types | bluff, cheating, chicane, chicanery, delusion, double-dealing, obscurantism, duplicity, take-in, fakery, cheat, pretence, feigning, four flush, pretending, guile, pretense, wile, head game, simulation, shenanigan, illusion, impersonation, imposture, indirection, trickery |
| Derivation | deceive |
Examples of deception
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Until then, the Super-Majors have to play a very VERY careful game of deception.
From the forbes.com
Psychologists are getting close to showing that monkeys practice self-deception.
From the newscientist.com
It works, but once the deception is revealed, the young people fall out of love.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Unfortunately, it's over which style of campaign deception they wish to endorse.
From the washingtonpost.com
The 40-year deception of a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966.
From the post-gazette.com
Miller was charged with one count of theft by deception, a felony, in Lexington.
From the kentucky.com
The next person I am most proud of is a woman unequaled in the art of deception.
From the blog.beliefnet.com
Yet the internal budget process itself involves a fair amount of self-deception.
From the economist.com
The longer this deception goes on, the trickier it is for the government to end.
From the economist.com
- Misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
- The act of deceiving
- Magic trick: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- (deceptive) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
- (deceptive) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
- Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment. ...
- Deception (1946) is a film noir released by Warner Brothers, and directed by Irving Rapper. The film is based on the play Monsieur Lamberthier by Louis Verneuil. The screenplay was written by John Collier and Joseph Than.
- End of the Game (German: Der Richter und sein Henker) is a 1975 German thriller film directed by Maximilian Schell and starring Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt and Robert Shaw. ...
- Ruby Cairo is a 1993 film directed by Graeme Clifford. The soundtrack features music by John Barry and the song You Belong to Me performed by Patsy Cline.
