Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of deceit.
- noun The fact or state of being deceived.
- noun A ruse; a trick.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of deceiving or misleading.
- noun The state of being deceived or misled.
- noun That which deceives; artifice; cheat: as, the scheme is all a deception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of deceiving or misleading.
- noun The state of being deceived or misled.
- noun That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of deceiving
- noun an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- noun a misleading falsehood
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I said that my affections were already engaged: yet I meant you to believe, as you did, that I loved another; and the thought of the deception, for it _was deception_, has caused me ceaseless contrition.
Fairy Fingers A Novel Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie 1844
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Only disturbing to me, because the story shows what our deception is about.
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Just as the deception is about to be discovered there absentee father turns up and we discover things are not quite as they seemed.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Just as the deception is about to be discovered there absentee father turns up and we discover things are not quite as they seemed.
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Aeneas highlights what he calls the deception of the Greeks: an Argive solider had allowed himself to be captured, and he leads on the Trojans with an act and a tale, enticing them to bring the horse inside the citadel.
felix hominum 2008
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This kind of deception is illegal under federal securities law because it fools investors into investing in a company which is far less sound than its books suggest.
Wonk Room » Bill Would Restore Accountability To Companies Who Enable Fraud 2009
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I think, however, that this kind of deception is not only misleading to the reader, but a disservice to the writer.
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I think, however, that this kind of deception is not only misleading to the reader, but a disservice to the writer.
February 2008 2008
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This kind of deception is the rule, not the exception, in Silicon Valley.
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Expect more of this kind of deception from the right as An Inconvient Truth hits theaters on May 24.
biligsiz commented on the word deception
a deception gate...
January 22, 2013