Definition of deception

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Deception (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading.

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Cheat :: Cheat (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
Overreach :: Overreach (v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.
Victimize :: Victimize (v. t.) To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat..
Deceptivity :: Deceptivity (n.) Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.
Play :: Play (n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
Cog :: Cog (n.) A trick or deception; a falsehood.
Circumvent :: Circumvent (v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around..
Self-deceit :: Self-deceit (n.) The act of deceiving one's self, or the state of being self-deceived; self-deception..
Wile :: Wile (n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement..
Undeceive :: Undeceive (v. t.) To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake..
Disguise :: Disguise (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
Disguise :: Disguise (n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties..
Dor :: Dor (n.) A trick, joke, or deception..
Cog :: Cog (v. t.) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off..
Gleek :: Gleek (n.) A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.
Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.
Pretence :: Pretence (n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death..
Jilt :: Jilt (v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.
Circumvention :: Circumvention (n.) The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion..
Humbug :: Humbug (n.) A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.
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