deception
US: /dɪˈsɛpʃən/
UK: /dɪsˈɛpʃən/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
deception /di'sepʃn/- danh từ
- sự dối trá, sự lừa dối, sự lừa gạt
- trò lừa dối, mưu mẹo gian dối, mánh khoé lừa bịp
- to practise deception: lừa dối, lừa gạt
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [U] the act of deliberately making sb believe sth that is not true: a drama full of lies and deception + He was accused of obtaining property by deception.
2 [C] a trick intended to make sb believe sth that is not true: The whole episode had been a cruel deception.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 duplicity, deceit, intrigue, hypocrisy, fraud, cheating, trickery, chicanery or chicane, dissimulation, double-dealing, subterfuge, sophistry, treachery, knavery, tergiversation; see also deceit 1, above:
He practised deception even in his family relationships.
2 trick, ruse, artifice, stratagem, subterfuge, manoeuvre, wile, imposture, hoax, sham, pretence; see also deceit 2, above:
He tried every deception in the book to separate her from her money.
Collocation
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.
Concise dictionary
deceptionsdɪ'sepʃnnoun
+a misleading falsehood
+the act of deceiving
+an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
