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How to use deception in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun

Deception means an instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy. Example: “She got the money out of the tourist by deception.”

Examples of deception by meaning

nounAn instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

  • She got the money out of the tourist by deception.
  • The Priest also places a moral barrier between himself and his tale by establishing himself as an "unreliable narrator" capable of deception and irony.1969 September, Charles A. Watkins, “Chaucer’s Sweete Preest”, in Earl R. Wasserman et al., editors, ELH [English Literary History], volume...

More sentences with deception

  • The man was completely impervious to the deception we were trying.From the entry impervious
  • For all his treachery and deception, he had one saving grace: good manners.From the entry saving grace
  • Your deception won't work: no inmate has slipped one past Officer Smith in years.From the entry slip one past
  • He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.From the entry outright
  • In addition to mud-slinging, deception and drama, showmance is one aspect that makes reality television so addicting.2008, David Lyle quoted in "Love is in the Air This Valentine’s Day When Fox Reality Channel Premieres 'The Top 25 Hottest Reality…. From the entry showmance
  • This is not theft by deception, this is robbery in broad daylight.2008, Robert Steele, Fico Is a Four Letter Word, →ISBN. From the entry fico
  • The term vranyo in Russian describes the subtle collective participation people can have in deception.2007, David Shulman, From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry vranyo
  • You answered her by saying that what you told them was a necessary deception.1982, Terry Brooks, chapter 19, in The Elfstones of Shannara (A Del Rey Book), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry elven
  • I do not level a blanket accusation of hoodwinkery and deception.1973, Bob Bartlett, quotee, Legal Compilation; Statutes and Legislative History, Executive Orders, Regulations, Guidelines and Reports…. From the entry hoodwinkery
  • Same dangers, deceptions, retreats; same large diplomatic ambitions abroad, and mean‐spirited placation at home.1972 November 5, Garry Wills, “Four more years? Learning to live with Nixon”, in The New York Times. From the entry four more years
  • It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure. From the entry crookery
  • How is one to limit the risks involved in allowing such systematic deception?1955, John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules”, in The Philosophical Review, LXIV, № 1, page 12. From the entry telish
  • "But on what score?" "On the score of the deception you have practiced on us—on me."1921, Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche. From the entry on what score
  • Evil — or "Satan," if you prefer — is present in such words of hatred, fear and deception.2022 May 11, David B. Gowler, “Marjorie Taylor Greene's version of Christianity is a massive betrayal of the teachings of Jesus”, in…. From the entry the call is coming from inside the house
  • There’s the Loki fly, in honor of the tortured God of Mischief, whose scientific name is “Daptolestes illusiolautus,” meaning elegant deception.2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN. From the entry Loki
  • As we will see, the law often seeks to differentiate con artistry from other varieties of intimate deception.2019, Jill Elaine Hasday, Intimate Lies and the Law, page 37. From the entry con artistry
  • There are fingerpointers in our lives, as well—cruel and blatant accusations and deceptions of the enemy of our souls.2016, Cheryl Samelson Skid, “Introduction”, in Never Out of His Sight: Learning to Discern the Voices, Georgetown, Del.: Fruitbearer…. From the entry fingerpointer
  • Cyberattacks almost inevitably involve an element of deception, such as tricking a user to click on a malicious link.2012 June 5, Patrick Lin, Neil Rowe, Fritz Allhoff, “Is It Possible to Wage a Just Cyberwar?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry perfidy
  • According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said, page 70. From the entry misleading
  • Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away (asportation) of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent.2011, James W. H. McCord, Criminal Law and Procedure for the Paralegal, page 128. From the entry asportation
  • After five minutes' conversation with me the old folks would penetrate the deception like a dose of salts.1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season. From the entry like a dose of salts
  • Soviet deception may increase the likelihood of undetected non-compliance, although it also risks a re-escalation of the crisis.1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series, self-published, page 5. From the entry re-escalation
  • And they also depend more upon their ability to hide when pursued than upon the more gameful tactics of track deception.1919, “Hunter-trader-trapper”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 39, page 52. From the entry gameful
  • The social deception game Blood on the Clocktower has recently used this mechanic to significant effect to create a legacy version of Mafia.2023 November 24, Devon Allcoat, Chris Evans, Meaningful Game Design: The Methodology and Psychology of Tabletop Games, CRC Press, →ISBN. From the entry legacy
  • Catholics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and any other dogma that you read about were warring, while fully in their deception from the Light of Truth.2021, Yahonathan Daweed, Yahweh for Christians: I Am Original Words, Original Truth, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Dorrance Publishing Co…. From the entry christian
  • The deception made the act highly bookable, and the team worked the Poli Circuit for many months, finally breaking up over “creative differences.”2013, Trav S.D., Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies. From the entry bookable
  • Machiavellianism refers to interpersonal strategies that advocate self-interest, deception, and manipulation, so it would seem inherently related to core psychopathy and narcissism.2011, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Sophie von Stumm, Adrian Furnham, The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences, John Wiley &…. From the entry Machiavellianism
  • Like catfishing – where someone pretends to be another person in order to attract more attention on dating apps – wokefishing is a similar kind of deception.2021 April 4, Natalie Morris, “Black Lives Matter hashtags are making dating apps even more complicated”, in Metro, archived from the…. From the entry wokefish
  • When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick.2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 385. From the entry quick
  • And if they are not, then to portray them in the therapeutic encounter as if they are is at best disingenuine and at worst a deception.2008, Richard Bryant-Jefferies, The Jigsaw of Life. From the entry disingenuine
  • As Ishmael Reed so bluntly points out, deception and sublimation are put to hard labor to invisibilize this influence in a society that is fertilized by its presence.1996, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts, Praeger, page 23. From the entry invisibilize
  • If he does not know them, it is deception to pretend that he does, while all the time he has never heard of them until instructed by the nomenclator.63 b.c., Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Lucio Murena: Oratio Ad Iudices, 1956, Page 115. From the entry nomenclator
  • Long before the energy crisis the debate over deregulation of natural gas prices raged stormily, stirring high emotions, demagogueries and mutual deceptions, and with literally billions of dollars at stake.1976 April 2, “Gas Deregulation”, in The New York Times. From the entry stormily
  • His reputation as archmaster in deception not only makes his failure more amusing in itself, but makes it appear as the almost direct consequence of his last piece of cunning.1932, Germaine Dempster, Dramatic Irony in Chaucer, Stanford University Press, page 312. From the entry archmaster

Meaning of deception

  1. noun An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

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Questions about deception in a sentence

How do you use deception in a sentence?
Deception is used as a noun. For example: “She got the money out of the tourist by deception.”
What is a short sentence with deception?
“He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.”
What does deception mean?
Deception means an instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

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