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How to use deception in a sentence

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All propaganda is a sophisticated form of deception and she had been caught in the act of misdirecting the electorate.
The use of modern combat hardware and equipment sets higher standards for camouflage, concealment, and deception.
In a situation with widespread deception and self-deception, it is difficult to make the proper judgments.
The first half of the book is an introduction to evolutionary psychology and to theories of deception and self-deception.
It doesn't make him one whit less sharp at ferreting out deception, including self-deception.
This is wishful thinking pursued to the point of deception and self-deception.
The world of selling is a particular haven of deception, and self-deception is the most priceless asset of all.
Many of these pseudepigrapha are not merely falsely ascribed, but the result of deliberate deception.
Mr Newton was not to know that the builder on his doorstep had a string of convictions for deception and misleading customers.
His investigation reveals a twisted labyrinth of deception and betrayal, with remorseless vixen Kitty Collins at the center.
A mentalist is a performer who uses trickery and deception to create the illusion of having paranormal or supernatural powers.
But what becomes of a society that is so thoroughly saturated with deception?
When Debra and Robert learn of the deception, Raymond receives his just deserts in a marvelous confrontation scene at the dance club.
Containing yet transcending deception, the art of ambiguity in Chinese strategic tradition is the ultimate form of psychological warfare.
The Ojibwas had likewise used deception to their benefit in taking Michilimackinac.
Soviet staff manuals laid stress on the importance of deception, and divided it into strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
The riot was a dirty trick which was pulled off through the use of deception, and Bloggergate is the same thing.
First-generation skeuomorphs are close mimics, even fakes. Second-generation skeuomorphs abandon any serious attempt at deception.
His complete deception regarding taxes and his grandstanding on the issue of unemployment cast him as little more than an opportunistic liar.
It is hard to read the auguries, so complex is this interplay of deception, self-deception, bluster and bluff.
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Examples from Classical Literature
No talent in the deception of individuals or the gulling of the crowd can of itself bring the great reward.
It cannot be allowed that Joshua, Samuel, or Ezra, could connive at such a deception.
I am never successful in my little attempts at deception, even in self-defence.
And how often is a deception of the senses or an error of the reason accepted as a conviction!
The illicit means employed in discriminative underselling are chiefly extortion and deception.
The domino theory deception makes the claim that if one thing happens another will invariably follow.
If it be Mr. reedman's, he must have been guilty of fraud or the victim of deception.
Hence, we must counteract the ocular deception by an adjustment of proportions.
The deception worked, and they agreed to buy Mr. mogo's property, which he divided into thirty shares of one thousand each.
The system of fudging tasks, cribbing lessons, deception of every sort they endeavoured to overthrow.
Most of the geometer caterpillars, of which we have already spoken, are well trained in the art of deception.
Ferrari, in his excellent work on juvenile delinquency, discusses the various motives for deception and malingering in the child.
In brief, advertised dishonesty is even more profitless than unexploited deception.
If that were so, should we not be compelled to reject the whole of this as phantasy and deception?
All falsehood must be a blot as well as a sin, an injury as well as a deception.
This title swings him into full view, stripped of all deception and legerdemain.
It is well-planned deception, but I shall take no chances with them.
He lived in an atmosphere of blackest falsehood and deception.
Here are our instruments of deception, our poisoned 75 sources of lucre.
This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light.
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