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deceptiveness
noun as in casuistry
noun as in deception
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noun as in delusion
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noun as in equivocation
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noun as in fallacy
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- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- faultiness
- flaw
- illogicality
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- mistake
- notion
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
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noun as in falsity
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noun as in speciousness
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- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- spuriousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
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noun as in spuriousness
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- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
Weak matches
noun as in tergiversation
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Example Sentences
"The omission and/or deceptiveness of this essential information" in advertising could influence consumers' decisions and expose them, "minors in particular", to the risk of unknowingly damaging their health, it said.
“I felt like there was a deceptiveness there, a desire to claim ownership of this Islamic icon while ignoring the Palestinians.”
Obviously, most of those who rally around a Big Lie do not do so from a place of deliberate deceptiveness — and they certainly wouldn't call it that.
And when a subtitle claims, “I was tormented by adverse reactions to my appearance,” even as you watch her deliberately provoking responses, the contradiction seems designed to underline the deceptiveness of the medium.
It is his own character flaws — his deceptiveness, his ruthlessness, his irresponsibility — that are determining his political fate.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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