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deception

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Online deception is now a multimillion-dollar global industry, and the emerging economy of misinformation is growing quickly.

The postponement follows the startup’s efforts to pivot from denying allegations of deception to talking up its technology and partnerships to calm investors who have seen the stock price plunge by almost 50% since the company went public in June.

From Fortune

Especially when there’s deception and mislabeling going into the buys in the first place.

From Digiday

Niccolò Machiavelli, perhaps the most famous political thinker, endorsed using any strategies available—including cooperation, corruption, and deception—to gain status and maintain political control.

It’s common for telemarketers to disguise themselves in order to trick people to picking up, but the deception takes on another level of seriousness when an election is at stake.

He refused to be drawn on whether the authors might be guilty of a deliberately deception.

She is against the patriarchy, especially when personified in villainous ogres like the Duke of Deception.

They see collusion and deception and they say Ankara is determined to subjugate them.

I felt like that was one of the first moments you ever see Alicia caught in an act of deception.

I loved the volatility to his reaction and the deception, and then her walking away with the security guards to the elevator.

Deception does not suit the part of a protector, and, when one can do anything without question, where is the use of deception?

With the shrewd cleverness that scarcely ever deserted her, she had forced her temper into the service of deception.

In all kinds of deception the Chinese are great adepts, and decidedly more than a match for any Europeans.

It seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.

Deception, so hateful to her truthful soul, she was compelled to carry on even against her trusting husband.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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