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Synonyms for deception
dɪˈsɛp ʃənde·cep·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
deception
Deceit is the habit, deception the act; guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise. A lie, lying, or falsehood, is the uttering of what one knows to be false with intent to deceive. The novel or drama is not a lie, because not meant to deceive; the ancient teaching that the earth was flat was not a lie, because not then known to be false. Untruth is more than lack of accuracy, implying always lack of veracity; but it is a somewhat milder and more dignified word than lie. Falsehood and lying are in utterance; deceit and deception may be merely in act or implication. Deception may be innocent, and even unintentional, as in the case of an optical illusion; deceit always involves injurious intent. Craft and cunning have not necessarily any moral quality; they are common traits of animals, but stand rather low in the human scale. Duplicity is the habitual speaking or acting with intent to appear to mean what one does not. Dissimulation is rather a concealing of what is than a pretense of what is not. Finesse is simply an adroit and delicate management of a matter for one's own side, not necessarily involving deceit. Compare ARTIFICE; FICTION; FRAUD; HYPOCRISY.
Synonyms:
craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, delusion, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fabrication, falsehood, finesse, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, lying, prevarication, trickery, untruthAntonyms:
candor, fair dealing, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth, veracity
Princeton's WordNet
misrepresentation, deceit, deceptionnoun
a misleading falsehood
Synonyms:
thaumaturgy, magic trick, trick, deceit, fraudulence, falsification, conjuring trick, dissimulation, conjuration, legerdemain, magic, misrepresentation, illusion, dissemblingdeception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulationnoun
the act of deceiving
Synonyms:
dissembling, trick, pretence, legerdemain, fraudulence, magic trick, feigning, deceit, conjuring trick, thaumaturgy, dissimulation, illusion, misrepresentation, magic, conjuration, pretensemagic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deceptionnoun
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
Synonyms:
fantasy, joke, trick, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, phantasy, magic trick, dissembling, caper, semblance, head game, put-on, fast one, dissimulation, fancy, delusion, thaumaturgy, antic, conjury, prank, misrepresentation, magic, invocation, whoremaster, john, conjuration, deceit, whoremonger, conjuring trick, conjuring
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
deceptionnoun
Synonyms:
imposition, craft, duplicity, deceit, hoax, fallacy, ruse, imposture, artifice, illusion, prevarication, finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, sophistry, coggeryAntonyms:
guilelessness, candor, disillusionment, fair dealing, sincerity
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "deception":
deceit, fraud, scam, cheating, disappointment, misrepresentation, delusion, sham, trickery, hoax
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#372 | john | |
#1996 | fantasy | |
#2205 | magic | |
#4241 | craft | |
#4480 | fraud | |
#4929 | lie | |
#6675 | joke | |
#6823 | fancy | |
#7137 | lying | |
#7167 | trick | |
#11065 | scam | |
#12310 | fabrication | |
#12334 | cheating | |
#13078 | illusion | |
#15524 | deception | |
#15535 | disappointment | |
#20014 | sham | |
#20106 | imposition | |
#21135 | invocation | |
#21506 | hypocrisy | |
#22497 | hoax | |
#25925 | guile | |
#26623 | cunning | |
#29324 | misrepresentation | |
#29414 | prank | |
#30154 | deceit | |
#33029 | delusion | |
#35918 | finesse | |
#40207 | caper | |
#41420 | phantasy | |
#41919 | falsehood | |
#47547 | semblance | |
#48205 | pretense | |
#55580 | falsification | |
#56510 | trickery | |
#63572 | pretence | |
#68253 | incantation | |
#69173 | duplicity | |
#76418 | conjuring | |
#79626 | antic | |
#105408 | feigning | |
#108989 | untruth | |
#115961 | conjuration | |
#162714 | legerdemain | |
#169441 | dissembling | |
#176365 | dissimulation | |
#211784 | deceitfulness | |
#218824 | prevarication | |
#323539 | fraudulence |
How to use deception in a sentence?
In the eyes of a manipulator, Love becomes a weapon—a tool wielded with cunning intent to exploit vulnerability and sow the seeds of deception.
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure, those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. Not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process.
There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
[ Russia’s ] leaders have embraced a wide range of tools — information warfare in all its forms, including subversion, deception, dis - and misinformation, this toolkit has deep historical roots in the Soviet era and performs the function of the equalizer that in the eyes of The Kremlin is intended to make up for Russia’s weakness vis a vis the West.
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- خِدَاعArabic
- падма́нBelarusian
- изма́ма, заблужде́ние, лъжа́Bulgarian
- podvod, klamCzech
- Täuschung, BetrugGerman
- απάτηGreek
- trompoEsperanto
- engañoSpanish
- فریبPersian
- petosFinnish
- supercherie, tromperieFrench
- bréagIrish
- megtévesztésHungarian
- խաբեբայությունArmenian
- blekkingIcelandic
- inganno, mistificazioneItalian
- いんちき, ごまかし, 欺瞞, 欺騙Japanese
- 기만Korean
- چاوبهست, فڕوفێڵKurdish
- и́змамаMacedonian
- misleiding, bedrogDutch
- oszustwoPolish
- enganação, logro, enganoPortuguese
- заблужде́ние, ложь, обма́нRussian
- превара, obmana, обмана, prevaraSerbo-Croatian
- podvodSlovak
- prevaraSlovene
- bedrägeriSwedish
- aldatma, yanıltma, kandırmaTurkish
- обма́нUkrainian
- lừa dốiVietnamese
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