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
- Past participle of Latin decipere "deceive"; gerund form of to deceive. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English decepcioun, from Old French deception, from Late Latin dēceptiō, dēceptiōn-, from Latin dēceptus, past participle of dēcipere, to deceive; see deceive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deception’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
acolyte, archrival, backhander, backlash, baksheesh, bashing, boo, bribery, cadre, chicanery, clash, coercion and 256 more...
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vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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This is not a list
you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 165 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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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.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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SEDE - military operations
Iran-Iraq War, prevention, increase of readi..., replacement of wa..., rise of readiness, stabilisation, build up, basic training, defence procurement, force modernisation, full mobilisation, grueling training and 387 more...
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ept
kept, wept, adept, inept, depth, scepter, exception, reception, perception, preconception, conception, inception and 74 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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words unknown
repeat!!!
laissez faire, propensity, punitive, explicit, whim, extenuating, distort, gross, grossly, hearsay, dispel, apprehensive and 113 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for deception.
biligsiz a deception gate... Jan 22, 2013