Magicians use deception.
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Deception
Synonyms for "deception" (227 found)
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Strong matches (68)
Related words (113)
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1 entriesderived
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5 entriesTranslations
110 translations across 61 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- mashtrim noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Arabic
2 entries- خَدْع noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- خِدَاع noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Armenian
1 entries- խաբեբայություն noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- aldatma noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Belarusian
1 entries- падма́н noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Bengali
1 entries- প্রবঞ্চনা noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Bulgarian
3 entries- заблужде́ние noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- изма́ма noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- лъжа́ noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Catalan
1 entries- engany noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- بێ باوەڕی: چاوبەست noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- فڕوفێڵ noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 欺詐 /欺诈 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- 欺騙 /欺骗 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- 騙局 /骗局 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Czech
3 entries- balamucení noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- klam noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- podvod noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Danish
1 entries- bedrag noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Dutch
3 entries- bedriegerij noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- bedrog noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- misleiding noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Esperanto
1 entries- trompo noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Estonian
1 entries- pettus noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Finnish
1 entries- petos noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
French
2 entries- supercherie noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- tromperie noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Galician
2 entries- calote noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- engano noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Georgian
1 entries- მოტყუება noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
German
3 entries- Betrug noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- Betrügerei noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- Täuschung noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Greek
1 entries- απάτη noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Hebrew
2 entries- אֲחִיזַת עֵינַיִם noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- מִרְמָה noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Hindi
3 entries- छल noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- झाँसा noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- धोखा noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Hungarian
1 entries- megtévesztés noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Icelandic
1 entries- blekking noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Irish
1 entries- bréag noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Italian
4 entries- frode noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- inganno noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- mistificazione noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- raggiro noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Japanese
4 entries- いんちき noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- ごまかし noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- 欺瞞 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- 欺騙 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Kazakh
1 entries- алдау noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Korean
3 entries- 기만 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- 사기 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- 속임 noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- алдоо noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Latin
2 entries- captiō noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- dolus noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Latvian
1 entries- maldināšana noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Lithuanian
1 entries- apgavystė noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Macedonian
1 entries- измама noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Malay
1 entries- penipuan noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xapandin noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bedrag noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Old English
2 entries- swiccræft noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- ġedwolcræft noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Persian
1 entries- فریب noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Polish
2 entries- bałamuctwo noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- oszustwo noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Portuguese
3 entries- enganação noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- engano noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- logro noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Romanian
2 entries- amăgire noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- decepție noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Russian
3 entries- заблужде́ние noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- ложь noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- обма́н noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prijȇvara noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- prȅvara noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- ȍbmana noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- о̏бмана noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Sicilian
1 entries- ingannu noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Slovak
1 entries- podvod noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Slovene
1 entries- prevara noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Spanish
4 entries- decebimiento (disused) noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- engañifa noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- engañifla noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- engaño noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Swedish
1 entries- bedrägeri noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Tajik
1 entries- фиреб noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Tatar
2 entries- алдак noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- алдау noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Thai
1 entries- การหลอกลวง noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Tocharian B
2 entries- kuhākäññe noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- tārśi noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Turkish
3 entries- aldatma noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- kandırma noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- yanıltma noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Turkmen
1 entries- aldaw noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Ukrainian
1 entries- обма́н noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Urdu
2 entries- دھوکا noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- فریب noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئالداش noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Uzbek
2 entries- aldash noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
- firib noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự lừa dối noun (instance of actions fabricated to mislead)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Source: tatoeba (879636)
Conscience is sorrow. Intelligence is deception. Only on the outskirts of life can one plant a little illusion.
Source: tatoeba (2474692)
Nothing can justify deception and manipulation.
Source: tatoeba (4567881)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.