deceptionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/dɪˈsep.ʃən/us/dɪˈsep.ʃən/C2 the act of hiding the truth, especially to get an advantage:
He was found guilty of obtaining money by deception.
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- He said that the government was guilty of deception by exaggerating the figures.
- He was arrested on charges of attempted deception when he tried to use a stolen credit card.
- Police uncovered a shocking story of lies, deception and blackmail.
- It wasn't really magic - just some kind of clever visual deception.
- Her husband was a practised liar, capable of extraordinary deception.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- hypocrisy
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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