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Sentences with deception

de·cep·tion
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  • He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.
  • The scope for collective self- deception contained in this sort of language forms the subtext of The 9/11 Commission Report.
  • Then came a 15-month suspended jail sentence in 1992 on deception charges, which curbed his association with Strarch International.
  • As the accusations of lying and deception accumulate.
  • Deception is applied to anything that deceives, whether by design or illusion; , fraud suggests deliberate deception in dishonestly depriving a person of property, rights, etc.; , subterfuge suggests an artifice or stratagem used to deceive others and to evade something or gain some end; , trickery implies the use of tricks or ruses in deceiving others; , chicanery implies the use of petty trickery and subterfuge, esp. in legal actions
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