Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.
The act or practice of deceiving.
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Examples for "deception "
1 The deception of the public continues, the paper said in an editorial.
2 Pharaoh's main problem was that too many people knew about the deception .
3 It takes a certain sort of dangerous intelligence to maintain such deception .
4 What I do in the way of deception I do in self-defense.
5 Jouret continued the deception , however, because it appealed to his showman's nature.
1 To correct our self-partiality and self - deceit is the use of general rules.
2 A competition in deceit in which, I admit, he out did them.
3 In every other respect, mutual suspicion and profound deceit characterize the scene.
4 He was above and beyond all deceit and trickery and personal selfishness.
5 Nothing can excuse the bank's sharp practice and deceit of its customers.
1 Eventually he came to the conclusion that the Republic was mere dupery .
2 The whole displays a complete system of dupery , and the agents were graduated.
3 What if he is not an easy prey to dupery ?
4 Egoist agony wrung the outcry from him that dupery is a more blessed condition.
5 And between ourselves what dupery there is in science, how it narrows our horizon!
6 People like to be plundered in company; dupery then grows into the spirit of party.
7 Fleetwood's wrath with his position warned him against the dupery of any such alcove thoughts.
8 What dupery his long life of labour had been!
9 He attributed the dupery to a trick of imposing the idea of her virtue upon men.
10 Cunning, jealousy, perfidy, ingratitude, dupery were the instruments with which he would fashion out a State.
11 Her reign, on the contrary, was only one continual intrigue; and that of the King a perpetual dupery .
12 But that is not justice, it is dupery - dupery that has brought the world nothing but suffering for centuries past.
13 But the fact that they were not due to any external dupery didn't make them a bit pleasanter to see.
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15 Eventually he came to the conclusion that the Republic was mere dupery .
16 The whole displays a complete system of dupery , and the agents were graduated.
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