Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The use of deceit.
- n. The fact or state of being deceived.
- n. A ruse; a trick.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of deceiving or misleading.
- n. The state of being deceived or misled.
- n. That which deceives; artifice; cheat: as, the scheme is all a deception. Synonyms and Deceit, Deception, Fraud. See
deceit . Trick, imposition, ruse, wile.
Wiktionary
- n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of deceiving or misleading.
- n. The state of being deceived or misled.
- n. That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of deceiving
- n. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- n. a misleading falsehood
Etymologies
- Middle English decepcioun, from Old French deception, from Late Latin dēceptiō, dēceptiōn-, from Latin dēceptus, past participle of dēcipere, to deceive; see deceive.
Examples
“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.”
“Only disturbing to me, because the story shows what our deception is about.”
“Just as the deception is about to be discovered there absentee father turns up and we discover things are not quite as they seemed.”
“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.”
“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.”
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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.”
“This kind of deception is the rule, not the exception, in Silicon Valley.”
“Expect more of this kind of deception from the right as An Inconvient Truth hits theaters on May 24.”
“Neither "rely on a deceptive creator to start with" – the seeming "deception" is merely the result of faulty reasoning and biased judgments coming from the minds of those who prefer not to see God or His hand in Nature.”
“The term deception will cover the mistakes believed and made in ignorance, and deceitfulness will include the beliefs in and expression of deceitfulness.”
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ghost
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
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