Synonyms:
magic_trick, conjuring_trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deception
Meaning: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
Synonyms:
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
Meaning: the act of deceiving
Synonyms:
misrepresentation, deceit, deception
Meaning: a misleading falsehood
Usage examples
The whole deception was cleverly carried out.
'To my mind there is something active in deception; this would be rather an omission.'
He accused the doctor of the deception, and, crossing the lawn, had said something cruel to Louise.
The eyeglass was presented by way of adding a reproof to the hoax--a sting to the epigram of the deception.
Durham, for the sake of keeping up the deception, had to shake hands, although he loathed himself for doing so.
Mr R. Hodgson happened to see the same phenomenon at his observatory at Highgate, and thus all possibility of deception was removed.
I believe some clergymen think the only evil lies in detection. I doubt if they ever escape it, and believe the amount of successful deception in that kind to be very small indeed.
Not two weeks, but seven years of torture, five of them devoted to grief for her, loss, and two to rage and bitter revulsion against her whole sex when I found her alive, and myself the despised victim of her deception."
Delisle performed the part of a father towards him, and thought he could shew no stronger proof of his regard, than by giving him the necessary instructions to carry on the deception which had raised himself to such a pitch of greatness.
When "Madame Lalande" was called upon to sing, the younger lady was intended; and it was she who arose to obey the call; my great, great, grandmother, to further the deception, arising at the same moment and accompanying her to the piano in the main drawing-room.