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