deception
(Informal)
[noun]
Synonyms:
- trickery, cunning, deceit, fraud, guile, legerdemain, treachery
- trick, bluff, decoy, hoax, illusion, lie, ruse, subterfuge

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Contrasted words: candidness, frankness, openness, honesty, integrity, probity, artlessness, ingenuousness, naiveté
Related Words: cunning, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, guile, cheating, cozening, defrauding, overreaching, bamboozling, befooling, duping, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, manipulation, ride, snow job, delusion, hallucination, illusion, mirage

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

de‧cep‧tion /dɪˈsepʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Word Family: noun: deceit, deceiver, deception; adjective: deceitful, deceptive; verb: deceive; adverb: deceptively]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: Late Latin deceptio, from Latin decipere; ⇒ deceive]
the act of deliberately making someone believe something that is not true ⇒ deceive:
She didn’t have the courage to admit to her deception.
He was convicted of obtaining money by deception.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

deception
noun
ADJ. cruel | elaborate This elaborate deception fooled his family for ages.
deliberate
VERB + DECEPTION practise, use He'll use deception to get what he wants.
see through She failed to see through his deception.
obtain sth by (especially law) She was charged with obtaining property by deception.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲