Deception

Definitions: Deception

Deception

Noun

1. A misleading falsehood.

2. The act of deceiving.

3. An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deception" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

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Synonyms: Deception

Credulity

Noun: credulity, credulousness; Adjective: cullibility, gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry; (obstinacy); hyperorthodoxy; misjudgment.

Cunning

Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap.

Deception

Noun: deception; falseness; untruth; imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence,

Falsehood

Noun: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying; Verb: misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin.

Improbity

Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal.

Plan

Contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying; stratagem; (cunning); trick; (deception); alternative, loophole; shift; (substitute); last shift; (necessity).

Skill

Noun: skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness; Adjective: proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness; sleight of hand; (deception).

Crosswords: Deception

Don't you think one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for both parties? (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

Necessity mother of invention, but sometimes step-mother of deception. (Charlie Chan's Secret; writing credit: Robert Ellis; Helen Logan)

A misconception, a vast deception ("Video"; performing artist: India.Arie)

A Circle of Deception (1960)

Deception (1946)

The Gay Deception (1935)

Deception (1932)

The Great Deception (1926)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Conquering Deception (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Double Deception (reference)

• Deception (reference)

• Intimate Deception (reference)

• Panama Deception (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Immaculate Deception [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Spiritual Deception (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Kagero: Tecmo's Deception 2 (reference)

• Tecmo's Deception (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A whaler's cemetery on Deception Island. 62 57 S Latitude 60 38 W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Harley Nygren warming his hands on a seaside fumarole on Deception Island. 62 57 S Latitude 60 38 W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Adelie penguins on the beach at Deception Island.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Nigeria

In practice, brand names or trade marks are not allowed to be confusingly identical or so confusingly similar to a brand name or a label already on the market, as to be likely to lead to deception of the purchasing public. (references)

Trade

Uruguay

Deception on the part of the importer or altering the value of imports is considered fraud and subject to legal penalties. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

Traffickers use force, coercion, fraud, and deception. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "deception": by deception ♦ deception of data ♦ deliberate deception ♦ electronic deception ♦ electronic imitative deception ♦ electronic manipulative deception ♦ electronic simulative deception ♦ imitative deception ♦ imitative electronic deception ♦ manipulative deception ♦ manipulative electronic deception ♦ self deception ♦ simulative electronic deception. Additional references.

Ending with "deception": marketing-by-deception, self-deception.

Albanian

dinakëri (artfulness, craftiness, cunning, deviousness, mischief, shrewdness, slyness, trickery, wile, wiliness), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), hile (chicane, fraud, overreach, ruse, subterfuge, trick, wangle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكر (archness, artfulness, artifice, brown, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, double dealing, feint, fish, foxiness, furtiveness, guile, ploy, roguery, ruse, sham, slyness, trick, wiliness), ‏مخادعة (bluff, deceit, fraud, humbug, swindle, trickery), ‏نصب إحتيال (embezzlement, fraud), ‏غش (adulterate, adulteration, bilk, cheat, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, defraudation, diddle, falsify, fudge, jiggery pokery, nobble, rig, sell, short, sting, swindle), ‏تضليل (dishonesty), ‏ضلال (aberrance, delusion, error, obscurity, perversity, wandering, wrong), ‏خيانة (betrayal, cheating, disloyalty, double cross, faithlessness, infidelity, perfidy, sell out, treachery, treason, unfaithfulness), ‏خدعة (artifice, dodge, fetch, fraud, gag, hoax, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏خداع (artifice, beguilement, bluff, bluffing, cheat, cheating, chicanery, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, defraudation, delusion, double dealing, dupery, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, humbuggery, imposture, knavery, mystification, roguery, spoof, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization, wile), ‏إنخداع (delusion, illusion). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заблуда (errancy, fallacy, misbelief, mistake, phantom, reverie, swiz), лъжа (bung, cracker, cram, falsehood, have on, inveracity, leasing, lie, lurk, play possum with, pose, tell a lie, tell lies, two time, untruth), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), илюзия (delusion, dream, fantasy, glamor, glamour, illusion, maya, phantasm, phantasy, phantom, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Chinese 

欺骗 (Bamboozle, Bamboozled, Bamboozling, Deceit, Deceive, Deceived, Deceiving, Deceptive, Delude, Deluded, Deluding, Foxed, Foxing, fraud, fraudulent, humbug, Impostrous, Imposturous, Kidded, Kidding, ripoff, rip-off, Tricked, tricked-out, Tricking). (various references)

Czech

podvod (cheating, con, deceit, dupery, falsehood, fiddle, flam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gold brick, guile, imposition, imposture, racket, swindle, take in, trick, trickery), podvádìní, klam (bluff, cheating, deceit, fallaciousness, fallacy, sham). (various references)

Danish

vildledning (masking). (various references)

Dutch

misleiding (electronic deception, fraud, spoofing, swindle), manipulatie van gegevens (deception of data, deliberate data modification, spoofing). (various references)

Farsi 

فریب خوردگی , فریب (Abusive, Cheat, Deceit, Defraud, Delusion, Fiction, Humbug, Intake, Jazz, Lurch, Lure, Mace, Seducement, Sophistry, Swindle, Temptation, Wile), نیرنگ (Art, Artifice, Craft, Trap, Trick, Trickery, Witchcraft), گول (Bilk, Cajole, Cajolery, Cheat, Crimp, Gull, Humbug, Jape), حیله (Deceit, Evasion, Foul, Gaff, Gimmick, Guile, Humbug, Legerdemain, Monkeyshine, Ruse, Sleight, Train, Trepanation, Trick, Wile), اغفال (Allusion, Delusion). (various references)

Finnish

petos (betrayal, deceit, fraud, fraud in mortgage dealings, swindle, toll fraud, treachery). (various references)

French

duperie (deceit), dérobement (derobement), déception (electronic deception), tromperie (deceit, deviousness), supercherie, fourberie, fausseté (deceitfulness). (various references)

German

Verschleierung (blur, blurring, concealment, cover up, covering up, disguising, spoofing, veiling), täuschung (beguilement, bluff, deceit, deceptiveness, delusion, error, fraud, illusion, illusiveness, mistake, mystification, subterfuge, swindle). (various references)

Greek 

κατεργαριά (crookededness, knavery, roguery, roguishness, shenanighan, skuldyggery, skullduggery, slyness, trappiness, trick, trickery, trickiness, trickishness), εξαπάτηση (swindling, victimization), απάτη (beguilement, bilk, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, scam, sham, spoof, swindle, swindling, toll fraud, trick, trickery), τέχνασμα (artifice, claptrap, contraption, contrivance, device, expedient, maneuver, manoeuvre, quirk, ruff, ruse, sleight, subterfuge, trick, wile). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעל (above, atop, embezzlement, fraud, on, on top of, supra, treachery, upward of), מרמ�" (deceitful, deceitfulness, duplicity, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence), תעתוע (deceit, delusion, illusion), תרמית (deceit, fraud, lying, ruse), או� א�" (deceit, fraud), אשלי�" (delusion, fancy, illusion), �"ו� א�" (cheating, deceit, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, trickery, wile), �"שלי�" (delusion, disappointment), �"טעי�" (fallaciousness, feint, misleading, sophistry), רמאות (bluff, cheat, cheating, deceit, double cross, double dealing, dupery, fraud, jiggery pokery, knavery, sell, skullduggery, swindle, trickery). (various references)

Hungarian

tévedés (blue, bobble, delusion, error, failure, fallacy, fault, flaw, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, miscalculation, misprision, miss, mistake, oversight, wrong), fortély (cunning, dodge, expedient, finesse, guile, hanky-panky, knack, ruse, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, wile, wiliness), csalás (a plant, bubble, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, collusion, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, delusion, fake, fallacy, falsehood, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gouge, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, let in, racket, roguery, scam, sell, snide, swindle, swizzle, trickery). (various references)

Indonesian

penipuan (deceit, dissimulation, embezzlement, put-upon, scam), kecurangan (corruption, dishonesty, foul, fraut). (various references)

Italian

insidia (danger, peril, trap), inganno (catch, cheat, craft, deceit, dupery, flam, gammon, guile, hoax, humbug, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery, wile). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

欺瞞 (deceit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎま�" (deceit), ぎへ�", ぎ (affair, be suspicious of, case, ceremony, connection, deed, distrust, doubt, false, falsehood, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, honour, imitation, intimacy, justice, kindness, lie, matter, morality, relation, righteousness, rule, skill), まやかし (counterfeit, fake, make-believe, phony), ま�"ちゃく (cheating, fraud, trickery), にせ (bogus, false, falsehood, imitation, lie, sham), �"まかし (cheating, hanky-panky, juggling). (various references)

Korean 

기만. (various references)

Manx

molteyrys (cheating, confidence trick, deceit, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, insidiousness), molley (baffle, bafflement, beguile, bluff, cajole, captivate, cheering, deceit, deceive, disappoint, disappointment, foil, fool, impose, imposition, trick). (various references)

Norwegian

bedrag (deceit, imposition, swindle). (various references)

Pig Latin

eceptionday.(various references)

Portuguese

desilusão (delusion, disillusion), decepção (balk, delusion, disillusion, flop, juggle), fraude (bilk, brogue, cheat, cross, deceit, embezzlement, evasion, fraud, graft, guile, humbug, inverse, ruse, sham, skulduggery, spoof, tax evasion, toll fraud, trickery, wile), engano (bait, blunder, bunco, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, delusion, error, fault, feint, fraud, gag, gammon, hoax, imposition, invention, inveracity, margarine, miscall, Miss, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, sham, slip, take in, tripping). (various references)

Romanian

fraudã (cheat, cross, defalcation, embezzlement, fraud, humbug, swindle), amãgealã (deceit, delusion, mystification, sham), înşelãtorie (cunning, delusion, do, dodgery, double dealing, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, guilefulness, hanky panky, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, racket, ramp, take in), înşelãciune (bluff, cheat, deceit, fake, flim-flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, guile, hoax, humbug, illusion, intake). (various references)

Russian 

обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cram, deceit, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery), obmana (bluff, bubble, chicanery, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, delusion, fraud, hoax, jugglery). (various references)

Spanish

decepción (anticlimax, disappointment, let down), mentira (counterfeit, deceit, falsehood, fib, flam, invention, juggle, libel, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, untruth), ilusión (a flight of fancy, delusion, dream, eagerness, hallucination, hope, illusion, mare's nest, phantasm), fraude (cheat, deceit, dishonesty, embezzlement, evasion, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, imposture, jugglery, tax evasion, toll fraud, trickery), engaño de la vista, engaño (artfulness, bamboozle, betrayal, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deceiving, delusion, double cross, dupe, dupery, falsification, fraud, guile, hoax, imposture, lure, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, phony, sham, swindle, token, trick, trickery). (various references)

Swedish

villfarelse (aberration, delusion, error, fallacy, illusion), bedrägeri (bunco, buncos, cheat, cozenage, deceit, do, double cross, dupery, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, fraudulent act, gammon, gyp, humbug, illusion, imposture, jugglery, knavery, racket, sell, swindle, take in, take-in). (various references)

Turkish

dalavere (cheating, chicane, do, fiddle, gammon, gerrymander, hankeypankey, hanky panky, intrigue, jobbing, maneuver, manoeuvre, ploy, rigging, rouser, sell, swindle, trick), utanç (disgrace, opprobrium, shame, shock), kanma (believing, gullibility, swallowing), kandırma (bait, dissuasion, inducement, inveiglement, put on, spoof), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), ayartma (enticement, incitation, seduction, temptation), aldatma (cheat, chicanery, deceit, dupery, eyewash, have on, illusion, imposition, infidelity, inveiglement, mystification, shave, spoof), aldanma. (various references)

Turkmen 

gцzboяagзylyk, aldaw (lie). (various references)

Ukranian 

ілюзія (delusion, illusion, mare's nest, phantasm, phantom, phasm), шахрайство (bamboozle, bilk, cheat, dishonesty, dodge, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, imposture, pettifogging, racket, racketeering, rascality, roguery, shave, skulduggery), обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), облуда (deceit). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lừa gạt trò lừa dối, sự lừa dối (beguilement, cozenage, deceifulness, deceit, delusion, duplicity, falsehood, gammon, lie), sự dối trá (deceifulness, lie), mưu mẹo gian dối, mánh khoé lừa bịp. (various references)

Welsh

twyll (deceit, fraud). (various references)

captio, captionem, deceptio, deceptione, deceptionem, deceptum, deceptus, error, errore, errorem, errores, erroresque, erroribus, erroris, fallacia, furta, furti, furtis, furto, furtum, furtumque. (various references)

gaud. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deception": deceptional, deceptions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deception" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decepticon, deceptio, decipium, decition, decption, diception, ecception. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: incepted.

-2 letters: codeine, ctenoid, deontic, enticed, entopic, epidote, nepotic, noticed, pentode, picoted, picotee, pointed, potence.

-3 letters: cenote, codein, coedit, coined, copied, deceit, decent, denote, depict, depone, dipnet, docent, edenic, encode, endite, entice, incept, noetic, notice, opened, opined, pecten, pectin, peined, pieced, podite, poetic, pointe, ponced, ponied, poteen.

-4 letters: cento, cited, coden, coned, conte, coped, copen, coted, deice, depot, dicot, diene, donee, edict, epode, inept, netop, niece, noted, ontic, opine, opted, optic, pence, picot, piece, pined, pinot, pinto, piton, poind, point, ponce, teind, tepid, tined, tondi, toned, tonic, toped, topee, topic.

-5 letters: cede, cedi, cent, cepe, cete, cine, cion, cite, code, coed, coin, cone, coni, cope, cote, deco, deep, deet, dene, deni, dent, dice, diet, dine, dint, dipt, dite, doit, done, dope, dote, edit, eide, epic, etic, iced, icon, into, need, neep, nice, nide, nite, node, nodi, nope, note, odic, once, oped, open, otic, peed, peen, pein, pend, pent, peon, pice, pied, pine, pint, pion, poet, pond, pone, teed, teen, tend, tide, tied, tine, toed, tone, tope, topi.

+1 letter: deceptions.

+2 letters: copresident, deceptional, deprecation, pedogenetic.

+3 letters: complimented, copresidents, deprecations, depreciation, deuteranopic, intercropped, introspected, nondeceptive, paedogenetic, precautioned, predilection.

+4 letters: contemporized, counterpoised, decrepitation, depreciations, dryopithecine, encyclopedist, intercompared, predilections, redescription.

+5 letters: appendectomies, appendicectomy, conceptualised, conceptualized, counterpointed, cyproheptadine, decompensating, decompensation, decrepitations, dryopithecines, encyclopedists, nephrectomized, nondescriptive, polynucleotide, preconditioned, productiveness, redescriptions, reincorporated, splenectomized, superconfident, uncomputerized.

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