How To Use Deception In A Sentence

It was an innocent deception, meant as a joke.
the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art
He believes many "psychics" are frauds who rely on perception and subtle deception.
Cake/dessert, or sweetmeat baskets are extremely popular and apart from the converted liners already mentioned, dismantled epergnes and converted goblets are the two most common deceptions.
She didn't have the courage to admit to her deception.

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Theft would not cover obtaining ownership by deception.
They're complete masters of camouflage and deception.
Jonson's use of strict verisimilitude helps to facilitate yet another layer of deception by employing a fixed sense of time.
His investigation reveals a twisted labyrinth of deception and betrayal, with remorseless vixen Kitty Collins at the center.
Now we are fed big pills of outright lies, prevarication, and deception.
Political discourse, in this view, is full of manipulation, deception, and untruths whose object is political advantage.
News dissector Danny Schechter wrote two books and made the film, WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception) about media coverage of the war in Iraq. Danny Schechter: Inside the Secret War Between Wikileaks and the Pentagon
In the bid to eliminate the estate tax, anti-repeal forces have used slick advertising, explicit falsehoods and deception.
Their disillusionment is often due in no small part to the deception and coercion employed by local commanders and combatants.
I applaud the ease and convenience of that answer; too bad I lack the power of self-deception necessary to believe it. Harlan Ellison on God
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together.
Fear, rage and awe contend in me - such talent for deception in one so young!
The use of modern combat hardware and equipment sets higher standards for camouflage, concealment, and deception.
We, the people, who were brought here in chains or by guile or deception or empty promises, were to provide labour.
The whole episode had been a cruel deception.
Making allies of the enemies of democracy because they share putative interests with us is, in other words, not realism but foolish self-deception.
Deception by mirrors has a basis in optical principles, in so far as reflections in mirrors do not correspond wholly to the objects that caused them.
She didn't have the courage to admit to her deception.
Looking back at Labour health policy now, I have to ask myself how so many of us were unable to see through the mists of what Leys and Player call the "misrepresentation, obfuscation, and deception" perpetrated by Blair, Brown, and a host of health ministers all too willing to genuflect to the market zeitgeist. The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player – review
Once the acrid smell of freshly applied paint had dissolved, the deception was complete.
Most people commonly employ dishonesty and deception as a means to get through life safely and advantageously. Dr T.P.Chia
Political discourse, in this view, is full of manipulation, deception, and untruths whose object is political advantage.
The charges portray a pattern of deception, of brazenness, and of greed.
A very annoying match - up, packed with plenty of harassment and deception.
Nine people have been charged with conspiring to obtain mortgage advances by deception from various building societies.
Hurtling along at breakneck speed, this smash hit comedy of marital deception guarantees a great night out.
J'y constatais d'abord, qu'une inquiètude nous attendait à tout spectacle auquel nous assistions et qu'une déception à peu près ineffable accompagnait toujours la chute du rideau. Pélléas and Mélisande
It is hard to read the auguries, so complex is this interplay of deception, self-deception, bluster and bluff.
The company's systematic deception involved six owners and skippers of fishing vessels and an auctioneer. Times, Sunday Times
Face it, he is almost pathological in either his mendacity or in his self-deception.
Their deception has inflicted immeasurable pain and misery on the victims. The Sun
On balance, he felt that hysterical dissociation states - if such was indeed Joanna's case - were really about deception and self-deception. COMPULSION
The first half of the book is an introduction to evolutionary psychology and to theories of deception and self-deception.
Indeed, because there's no such thing as a unified self, just a collection of modules, the very phrase "self-deception" is misleading in the author's view. Hard-Wired Hypocrisy in Our Divided Minds
He had been jailed twice with previous convictions for battery, deception and fraud. Times, Sunday Times
This is a constant quantity of a trans-historical nature, independent of all concrete specific political issues, and represents the level to which the right wing public collectively can be induced to believe that the Rest-Of-The-World (ROTW) is practicing collective deception upon them, preparatorily to a planned stealth conquest by subversion of ‘America’. The libertarian right hoax quotient
Editors at "USA Today" say one of their former reporters engaged in what they call elaborate deception in a story claiming the Serb military ordered ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2004
Rebecca turns to deception in order to correct her husband's blindness -- more metaphorical than literal -- and give the blessing to its more deserving recipient, Jacob, whom she now ropes into the dupery. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
The court then concluded that the civil disgorgement remedy provides an appropriate "guidepost" for computing how much of the gain is attributable to the "deception" of insider trading. TheRacetotheBottom - Headline News
His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
‘Lies and deception and deceit are part of this regime,’ he told reporters.
The long sustained deception has been dropped," says a paragraphist, "and the young man who assumed the name of 'Madame Zoyara' is now to be seen in correct masculine attire. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
He thought he could fool people with transparent deceptions.
Gain an understanding of the aggressor's body language, and the rituals of aggression and deception that he will use against you.
His observations on the burgeoning jazz scene are quite laughable, and typically shot through with self-deception.
As teachers were hauled before Judge Fisher they denounced the school authorities for tyranny and deception and said they were willing to go to jail to defend their rights.
Forbidden were men to draw nigh the plant, yet weaker were their still young and innocent minds to words of deception.
One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden
Indeed, the play of dissimulation and deception reaffirms the truth about what we see.
The subject of fakes, forgeries and deceptions is intriguing enough by itself to pique the curiosity of those who have only a passing interest in the world of art and antiques.
This was the first of several films that Capra would make spotlighting the plight of the common man overcoming the deception and greed of the rich fat cats.
This is wishful thinking pursued to the point of deception and self-deception.
He denies four charges of obtaining money by deception and false representation. The Sun
Yet the whole affair was a displacement activity: an exercise in self-deception.
It is a story of intrigue, deception and treachery.
The point of the near-constant dispensation of lies, half-truths and irrelevancies is to create an atmosphere in which it becomes almost impossible to distinguish honesty from deception, fact from fantasy.
He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.
Today, she is starting three-and-a-half years behind bars for her latest deceptions, plus six months for trying to con the judge into believing a fish and chip shop was a hospital.
As well as phone hacking, the notes referred to "blagging", obtaining information by deception. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves.
And what has worked for England's back row so far has been a smoke and mirrors deception based around the numbers on the back of a jersey. Times, Sunday Times
The couple deny theft, deception and fraud. The Sun
An example is where a transaction is void for fraud but the accused obtains possession or control by deception.
Our data provide new perspectives on the role of communication in promoting economic efficiency in social environments, and support economic theories of decision incorporating psychological factors such as guilt, shame, and self-deception. Communication, Threats, and Laughter
There are extenuating circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth (not a crime, one character tries to reassure her), and another's scheming and deception.
He believes many "psychics" are frauds who rely on perception and subtle deception.
The company's systematic deception involved six owners and skippers of fishing vessels and an auctioneer. Times, Sunday Times
He freely admitted that magic depended on deception and sleight of hand but said: ‘Origami is real magic!’
She had thought he would wipe the floor with her if he ever learned of her deception.
One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden
W. H. Auden said that the purpose of art is to make self-deception more difficult: "by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate. Bright Lights After Dark
He was convicted of obtaining a money transfer by deception, fraud and forgery in January. Times, Sunday Times
It is a cruel deception. Times, Sunday Times
Unselfish or magnanimous lies serve as sort of social lubricant; injurious or malicious lies show the worst of human deception and cunning. Dr T.P.Chia
After months of trying to undo the harm caused by our deception, we finally managed to promote a grudging parental acceptance of the strange new children of humankind.
He became so reckless in his deceptions and crookedness precisely because he believed himself to be untouchable.
Physical intimacy promises to seal and secure the relationship, but this is a deception.
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. Wonk Room » Bill Would Restore Accountability To Companies Who Enable Fraud
How easily the untruths flow when one embarks upon a path of deception, she thought, ashamed of herself.
It might endanger other reporters to have it publicly known that this deception is practised.
Sometimes the system aids and abets the deception, as in Florida, where a loophole in the state law allowed districts to counsel low-performing students to drop out to go into GED programs. John Merrow: With Testing, Where Do We Go From Here?
The girlfriend, also from the west part of York, pleaded guilty to two offences each of deception, handling stolen goods and shoplifting and one of breaching a conditional discharge.
Relatively newbie Miggs makes it look easy with this zinger from the Deception trailer thread: Oooooo! FD COMMENTER POWER RANKINGS
Jonson allows the head male character to be exceedingly great at his craft of deception.
Neither the eye of an insect or a human is likely to detect the deception until the mantis moves.
No limit can be set to the forms of deception practised in the occult.
Likewise, readers are also apprised of how ambiguous a clue to morality deception may be.
The deception campaign that exploited the émigrés' lack of credibility was unwittingly backstopped by correspondence between Cubans and their friends and relatives in the United States.
It is this calculated use of deception and falsehood that we should fear, more even than the wrongheaded policy.
The warm sunshine on Wednesday might have felt like spring had returned again, but it was a cruel deception. Times, Sunday Times
This is about a group of friends and their romantic hang-ups, their lives, loves and deceptions, triumphs and tragedies that climax to surprising finale.
She admitted theft and obtaining property by deception and asked for 20 other offences to be considered. The Sun
He also strongly condemned the role of the mass media in this mass deception.
Now, wielding Occam's Razor, as we are so often required to do when the right side of the aisle gets overexcited, which is more likely: a deliberate deception, despite the fact that the audio recording of the hearing can be downloaded from the CHRC CHRT and has legal precedence over the transcript in case of any discrepancies? Earth to speech-warriors...
The D-Day deception was a resounding success. Times, Sunday Times
The Protestant world took an active part in this matter and gave close attention to the guard that was over this "Mother Superior," as they were determined to learn from whence originated this bold deception, as they were thoroughly convinced that it was nothing more nor less than a deception. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
In fact, the agent of self-deception might itself be a social grouping, such as a happy-clappy religious cult.
What began life as a joke at the expense of a junior TV researcher was to become one of the largest media deceptions in modern times, along the way pricking the pomposity of the many intellectual pseuds who descend on Edinburgh every August.
He was convicted of obtaining a money transfer by deception, fraud and forgery in January. Times, Sunday Times
He may have owed his life to the deception operation in which his future wife played a part. Times, Sunday Times
I have been so haunted by diabolical deceptions in this matter, that what do I know but that the devil may assume the form of this rustical juvenal, in order to procure me farther vexation? — The Monastery
The Obama Deception...don't let the title throw you...this is more than about a bigger thing than the Idiot. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
This has inevitably spawned the culture of diving, but it seems that we prefer to have our cheating done by deception rather than violence. Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, brain scientists have noted the pervasive nature of self-deception and of different species of "confabulation", and they have begun to make progress in unmasking the underlying neurological processes (Hirstein 2005). Emotion
The coercers of the forced girls in this study kept them in control with violence, deception, indebtedness, and affection.
This is why underdogs so often have to resort to deception and look for a cunning plan. Times, Sunday Times
One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden
The Western Front does not cover everything -- the deceptions of the Bush Administration, the unintelligence of the intelligence community, the incompetence of the US civilian authority in Baghdad, the mercenariness of the humanitarian and reconstruction industry, the inflexibility of the US military leadership - no one film could indulge all those wrongs. Stewart Nusbaumer: Film Review: The Western Front
Plagiarism is first and foremost a moral crime - it's about deception, and it's reprehensible because the plagiarist is passing off someone else's ideas or words as his own.
They are getting wise to those whose artistry is increasingly directed at deception rather than skill. Times, Sunday Times
By and large, he is a dramatist of deception and double-dealing, an architect of environments that entrap and extinguish their inhabitants.
Additionally, intelligence sources suspected them of setting off beacons as tactical deception decoys.
To get within reach of this plea, it follows that self-deception is almost always integral to the act of lying.
And of course a working knowledge of the properties of metals could easily lend itself to deception and fraud.
I think the ploy to foister the program off on the school system, as a history education module, underscores the intent of deception. In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film
Where he, by deception, induces P. to remit his debt, he commits the offence under Section 2(a).
He said State Government planning authorities were guilty of inconsistency and deception.
Britain's only publicly listed quantity surveyor has launched a second investigation into bribery allegations after new evidence emerged of alleged deception by a former employee. Times, Sunday Times
The simulation results show that the monopulse tracking radar will lost target as it encountered the jamming of distance deception.
Working on a theme of deception and constraints mandating that we must include “a sink, a wink or a rink”, we built the 2d side-scroller “Panda Dragoon: Bees on Ice” with the aid of the Unity engine. Global Game Jam 2010 : KillerCodingNinjaBunny
His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
He is satisfied with his lot even if the rot will set in soon and the freshness is pure deception lasting no longer than cherry blossoms tossed on snow when north winds are enjoying their final fling.
Some authorities consider the term to have a wider application and to refer to any form of attack on the commander's mind and morale, including psychological warfare, electronic warfare, ruses, and deception.
Nine people have been charged with conspiring to obtain mortgage advances by deception from various building societies.
And they create a culture of deception where people will intentionally avoid remarrying and decide to live together just to avoid losing that monthly payment. Fred Silberberg: States Should Follow Massachusetts' Lead
Their most enduring lesson, of course, is in the art of lying and self-deception.
These included convictions for theft, forgery, counterfeiting and deception.
Hitters easily can read the ball out of his hand because his delivery lacks deception and he overextends his arm.
His bank, Abbey National, wrote to The Sunday Times charging that "someone from the Sunday Times or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as Mr Brown for the purpose of obtaining information from Abbey National by deception," according to the BBC. Phone Hacking Scandal Widens: News International Targeted Gordon Brown, BSkyB Bid Delayed (LIVE UPDATES)
Second, because the transition in Cuba will inevitably include an assessment of the regime's fiascos -- its failures, its deceptions and disappointments, its complicities and crimes and also, undoubtedly, its presumed accomplishments in education and health. What Else Ends With Castro
To undermine football as happens in certain countries is a deception and a crime against society.
Such explicitly parodic celebrities implicate themselves in the culture industry's deception.
Stay too long and you inevitably drown in a quicksand of disappointment, seedy nostalgia and self-deception.
Fiction, while sometimes manipulative, is not a deception unless it is portrayed as the whole truth; not to be confused with half-truths. Archive 2007-03-01
There is clearly a descending scale of culpability in non-deliberate deception from that amounting to professional misconduct to that which does not.
Honesty is the sum of sincerity, reasonableness, truthfulness, and fairness – honesty is the virtuous strength that overcomes deceit, deception and lying. Dr T.P.Chia
Specifically, it can uncover disciplinary partiality, ideology, hidden interests, professional skullduggery, deception and illusion.
People found guilty of obtaining personal details by deception - known as "blagging" - should be jailed, Deputy PM Nick Clegg has said. BBC News - Home
A thought that brought home to Marianne the two-way deception in which she suddenly found herself enmeshed. OUT OF THE ASHES
The Humanitarians who followed the religious deception of the Antichrist and the tiny flock of the Catholic Church, led by the Vicar of Christ. Archive 2009-03-08
The riot was a dirty trick which was pulled off through the use of deception, and Bloggergate is the same thing.
The aim was that s.15 alone would cover obtaining ownership by deception.
He believes many "psychics" are frauds who rely on perception and subtle deception.
And what has worked for England's back row so far has been a smoke and mirrors deception based around the numbers on the back of a jersey. Times, Sunday Times
The deception lasted until round No 5, when It was nighty nighty for Sweet Dreams after some stout resistance when he ran on to one big punch too many. Lamont Peterson beats Amir Khan - as it happened! | Steve Busfield
Like Wallis Simpson, Madonna, principal stuntwoman of late-20th-century pop iconography, has certainly come in for her share of vicious and perhaps warranted attacks, but that's because deception has always been a principal part of her repertoire. 'W.E.,' About Royals, Is a Messy Windsor Knot
The first embraces trickery and cunning, the second embraces manipulation and deception, with no lie being too great, no friendship not worth betraying.
You can have a form of internal deception where the maternal side is over-representing maternal interests which the paternal side is discounting, and vice versa.
She is simply a pricker of pomposity, an exposer of lies, halftruths and deceptions. Times, Sunday Times
This kind of deception is the rule, not the exception, in Silicon Valley. Scripting News for 1/13/2007 « Scripting News Annex
Expedition Cruises (expeditioncruises. com) takes passengers to see a research station at King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, swim in the geothermally heated waters at Deception Island, set foot on Antarctica's Paradise Bay peninsula and watch penguins in their natural habitat -- all in five-star luxury. Travel:The Icy Final Frontier
Even so, he has continued his policy of deception and prevarication.
He described the deception as a cruel hoax.
Mars is transiting his natal chart in Pisces, the sign of deception, and also in the 11 th house, the house of friends.
But this is what the French call bonne guerre, and the most innocent form of deception! Chapter I. Part IV
Her deception of Tian Tian is understandable enough from the fleshly point of view: The spirit was willing, but, oh, the flesh is not.
The denial of the Holocaust is the latest twist in this tale of conspiracy and deception.
The public interest also supported an injunction, since the public has an interest in avoiding deception. Archive 2009-04-01
The deception and trickery used for gain in America is not left out in this book.
On such deflationary views of self-deception, one need only hold a false belief p, possess evidence that ~p, and have some desire or emotion that explains why p is believed and retained. Self-Deception
The deception was possibly due to the presence of loose and shaggy membrane attached to the endocardial lining of the heart, or in some cases to echinococci or trichine. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
He admitted obtaining property by deception and was jailed for two years and nine months. The Sun
I guess earlier experts, never thinking their specialty could be tainted with such a barefaced deception, never looked.
The couple deny theft, deception and fraud. The Sun
One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden
The objectives are to ensure health insurance portability, lessen healthcare deception and exploitation, and guarantee security and privacy of healthcare information.
Instead, she uses cajolery, deception, and sexual manipulation to trick him out of consummating the marriage.
What resulted as each component moved in step with one another was coevolution, a spiral toward more and more social complexity as language allowed for even more manipulation and deception, and ever more collaboration and cooperation too. SuperCooperators
Our capacity for self-deception can be breathtaking. It's Too Easy Being Green
Few doctors would support the use of such extreme forms of deception today. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
It is hard to read the auguries, so complex is this interplay of deception, self-deception, bluster and bluff.
If those arrangements spectacularly go awry, they can't expect to hide behind a cloak of deception. Times, Sunday Times
This particular story involves disappearing houses, old men crawling through the undergrowth, beautiful women impaled on railings and deception on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times
The deception allowed him to flag down drivers who had particularly irked him. Times, Sunday Times
We hope our health workers will gradually erode the fabric of their deception.
They were led into this cul-de-sac by the champion of artful deception, Bill Clinton.
One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself(sentence dictionary), Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden
Instead, she uses cajolery, deception, and sexual manipulation to trick him out of consummating the marriage.
My deception fooled my peers, who quit calling me Beanpole and accepted my averageness with metallic grins and open arms, but my teachers were incensed and requested monthly teacher/parent consultations. Miracles, Inc.
Still curious about the nature of self-deception, denial and neglect, I called V.S. Ramachandran, a legendary neuroscientist at the University of California – San Diego and an expert on anosognosia.
I think that self-deception is, in a wealthy society, the main way that people overcome scarcity.
Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer. Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays
The D-Day deception was a resounding success. Times, Sunday Times
An ingenious story that mixes the usual dastardly deception with paranormal pranks. The Sun
Consider the case of Colonel Dudley Wrangel Clarke, an expert in strategic deception, using a role as a war correspondent for the Times as cover. MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
Just as the deception is about to be discovered there absentee father turns up and we discover things are not quite as they seemed. Archive 2005-10-01
In a 1999 essay titled “Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (By Which We Do Not Mean Nous)” (in Greek philosophy the term nous denotes the highest form of rationality), Shulsky and Schmitt, two neocons, argue that Strauss’s idea of hidden meaning “alerts one to the possibility that political life may be closely linked to deception. Grokster falls to the RIAA
Federal law now makes it a felony to use falsehood and deception to hide the origin of the spam messages hawking your fraudulent wares.
Soviet staff manuals laid stress on the importance of deception, and divided it into strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
In this literalization, the idolatrous deception of the first moment becomes readable. The Times Literary Supplement
Only disturbing to me, because the story shows what our deception is about. Matthew Yglesias » Human Rights Violation
To suggest that having this fund will mean tax payers will not have to pay for further bailouts is the deception. Dem defends $50B fund, challenges GOP to provide alternatives
He was jailed for two years for fraud and deception.
Ignorance, self-deception and false consciousness are not taken care of by any techniques of reconciliation.

How To Use Deception In A Sentence

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