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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a misleading falsehood [syn: misrepresentation , deceit ] the act of deceiving [syn: deceit , dissembling , dissimulation ] an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers [syn: magic trick , conjuring trick , trick , magic , legerdemain , conjuration ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French déception (13c., decepcion ) or directly from Late Latin deceptionem (nominative deceptio ) "a deceiving," from Latin decept- , past participle stem of decipere (see deceive ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Deception is the hiding or distorting of the truth. See also Deception (criminal law) , a legal term. Deception or The Deception may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a web of intrigue/deceit/deception/lies etc COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE obtaining ▪ If the bet were successful, a charge of obtaining property by deception could be laid. ▪ Black pleaded guilty to the theft ...
Usage examples of deception.
Tonight, he was able to continue the deception by taking the incoming call from JFK away from the Citizens Council men 194AN AMERICAN INSURRECTION in his interior study, accompanied only by his twenty-nineyear-old daughter Ouida Barnett Atkins.
The revelation of his deception to his wife, the tipping off of Bridgeman, even Dr.
In the early summer of 1968 West was arrested for stealing a cheque and using it to buy a record-player for the caravan, and on 10 June 1968 he was convicted at Cheltenham magistrates court on one count of theft and another of obtaining goods by deception.
Instead, she pretended to leave every morning for Cheltenham as she had been doing, a deception which appealed to her and seemed to satisfy her parents.
Marak had a few notorious flash points: deception in his contacts, mechanical devices in general, and Ian second-guessing his firm decisions at the head of the list.
That, it goes without saying, overcame any counterprogramming forbidding deception of a human.
Tem-Telek bowed his head deferentially, but the Bard saw a wicked gleam in his eye, as though he, too, was getting a certain amount of fun out of the deception.
If it were urged, that such ideal mimicry, such incessant deception, was unworthy of the God of truth, the Docetes agreed with too many of their orthodox brethren in the justification of pious falsehood.
He, who could never get up nerve enough to even go to a whorehouse unless someone was with him, chuckled and grinned shyly at his own deception.
The deception was not necessary, for the pair of Hinds passed two miles east of their position.
I met you years ago when you were living in Huddersfield and Daddy was banged up in Strangeways for fraudulent deception.
She had suspected a deception of some kind when she discovered from Iva that the suitcase had, in fact, been shipped.
Everything in the story, except the children and the child-wife Lipa, is going to be a succession of deceptions, a succession of masks.
It made him remember the passage of Null Boundary through the eye of the swan burster, when Nikko had made his wild dash out of Deception Well.
But although there may be a lot of unconscious fraud in paleoanthropology, the case of Piltdown demonstrates that the field also has instances of deception of the most deliberate and calculating sort.