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- noun Plural form of
deception .
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Examples
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Deceptions within deceptions kept me alert even though the pacing was otherwise slow.
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The only people who care about more lies and deceptions from the hateful Mr Burns, are other right wing extremists.
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Deceptions within deceptions kept me alert even though the pacing was otherwise slow.
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I hope that there will be a seat reserved for me when Senator Boxer hits the gavel to start the Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) hearing when The Credibility Project team appears, with an outraged Senator Inhofe turning red as they call his deceptions out for what they are.
A. Siegel: Scientific Inquiry Concludes: Inhofe List "Not credible" 2009
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Weisberg replies, You've pointed out the main deceptions in these ads.
March 2004 2004
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I hope that there will be a seat reserved for me when Senator Boxer hits the gavel to start the Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) hearing when The Credibility Project team appears, with an outraged Senator Inhofe turning red as they call his deceptions out for what they are.
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Nor can these ambushes be properly called deceptions, nor are they contrary to justice or to a well-ordered will.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Now, as we are constantly employing this mode of thought and have thus become quite accustomed to it, we no longer remark the above distinction, and, as in the case of the so-called deceptions of sense, consider as immediately perceived, what has really been inferred.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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The test administrator, John Kresnik, said Jones' score indicated "deceptions" in his answers.
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One morning, finding himself without a cent in his pocket, he resolved to sell something, and immediately the thought occurred to him of disposing of his wife's paste jewels, for he cherished in his heart a sort of rancor against these "deceptions," which had always irritated him in the past.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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