Deception used in a sentence

Deception in a sentence as a noun

Alas, fame and fortune are quite the deception.

Fraud is already a crime, so is theft, so is deception in its various forms.

[1]Calling this kind of deception "being playful with ideas" is absurd.

If you define lying as deliberate deception, he was right.

He saw it as blatant deception on the part of the news media as a way to sell more newspapers.

The only question in my mind was whether the deception rises to the level of termination.

Thousands upon thousands of Facebook employees at all levels have known this deception has been taking place.

We have an incredible capacity for denial and self-deception.

That was the problem with backdating: while the process itself was legal from an accounting standpoint, the fact that it was built on a fiction made it easy to cross the line into outright deception.

Anything else is an exercise in futility, self-deception, and ineffectiveness.

The group ended up cancelling the fishing trip and spending the whole day just driving all over town and stopping at all sorts of grocery stores, big and small, to prove that they were seeing the real experience of real Americans instead of an elaborate deception.