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deception

Deception is an act, appearance or statement which gives someone false information (is misleading).

deception

the act of deceiving (= misrepresentation) a misleading falsehood (= magic trick) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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Deception or advance?
DECEPTION?
You know, Dolly, men like Stiva aren't really conscious of deception at all.
The court is under no deception.
You forget that I am married and that the one charm of marriage. is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary to both parties.
But I just can't quite figure out why you started spinning this web of deception.
For my next deception, I have here a little handkerchief.
They charge that George Eastman wilfully, and with malice and cruelty and deception, murdered, then sought to conceal from justice the body of Alice Tripp.
Deception is a strenuous pastime.
You carried off your deception in a masterly fashion.
But that is so of any operation of war, and certainly any deception plan.
Listen, you moron, love is another word for lust plus lust, plus lust, plus a lot of deception, falsehoods and trickery.
Our whole enterprise is deception.
Deception?
Oh, I hate this deception.
No trick, no deception.
For such a deception, don't imagine that.
So, with possibly the help of a little plastic surgery, not forgetting the considerable resemblance to Barham in the first place, the deception was carried through.
Just a harmless little deception, eh?
And you've continued the deception using the wheelchair as an excuse for not going about the village?
It's just that I don't approve of falsehood and deception, particularly in my own wife.
It must be possible to rule without deception, without lies and betrayal and whatever else the people advise. In a pure way.
WHICH IS UNHAPPILY THE PATH OF DECEPTION.
What a great deception, Monsieur Hogan.
Listen, you moron, love is another word for lust, plus lust, plus lust, plus a lot of deception, falsehoods and trickery.
It simply is an act of self deception to put that kind of religious interpretation on out of thought.
As long as you confine your deception to reasonable limits. I was willing to condone matters.. but now..
Now with Mrs. Graham, it might be safer to practice a little deception, hmm? - Hmm?
It will be embarrassing for both of us if an agent of the Turkish government should know of our little deception.
Human society could hardly exist without deception.
Quiet. Quiet! There's been deception and trickery throughout this trial.
Positively no deception.
Deception is my business.
Mr. Learned Commissioner, I am going to ask the court's indulgence for what may appear to have been on my part a minor deception.
What would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks self-deception, which is essential when seeking to guide others?
And afterwards. the deception.
Yes, all is vanity and deception, except that boundless sky.

News and current affairs

It will be years before the full magnitude of President Bush's deception is apparent.
It is a legacy built on deception.
China understands that North Korea's intractability is rooted in its deep isolation from the world, mass deception of its people, and Kim's fear of losing control of a country that only his family has ruled.
Indeed, techniques of deception have undergone enormous improvements since Orwell's time.
It can be ensured only by an electorate that respects reality and punishes politicians who lie or engage in other forms of deception.
Both episodes were seen as a form of corruption: one involved money, the other deception.
And it is one that George Akerlof and I explore in our new book, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception.
Westerners who think otherwise and have acquiesced in Russia's actions in Ukraine do so for no other reason than their own greed, fear, or self-deception.
Ten years ago our revolution was mere sleight of hand; now our politics is simply deception, too.
Ordinary Europeans will pay a high price for their leaders self -deception and mistaken policies.
But self-deception is a choice.
The risks consist not so much in outright fraud - big lies that would be jailable offenses - as in more subtle forms of deception.
It may well be open deception, with promoters steering gullible amateurs around a business plan's fatal flaw, or disclosing it only grudgingly or in the fine print.
In my new book with George Akerlof, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, we argue that unscrupulous behavior has to be factored into economic theory in a fundamental way.
But it is more likely to be perceived as a grand deception - remembered not for helping Syria's people, but mainly as a sign of America's growing international weakness.
This observation represents an important codicil to Smith's vision. And it is one that George Akerlof and I explore in our new book, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception.
The Iraq engagement proved to be built on deception.
If the track record of previous inspections holds true, Iraq will not come clean, and the inspectors will have to work their way through a maze of deception and distortion.
Thus, the UN team is much smaller and less experienced than its predecessors, and faces Iraqi counterparts steeped in the art of deception.
Deception might be a source of comfort.
Deception is instantly appealing to many individual businesses.
In that case, new profits could quickly be used to plug the gaps, and no one would ever know about an apparently successful deception.
The revelation of deception makes it impossible to believe that governments are really enforcing rules adequately and fairly.
But it is the last deception that is the most widespread - and probably the most dangerous of all.
Today, the clique that surrounds Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embodies the bitter deception which the peace process that began with the Oslo agreement has meant for the Palestinians.

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