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Täuschung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chicanery noun Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  • deceit noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
  • deception noun An action or scheme designed to make someone believe something untrue.
  • delusion noun A firmly held false belief, maintained even against clear evidence.
  • fallacy noun A mistaken belief, especially one based on flawed reasoning.
  • guile noun Clever, often sly or dishonest, cunning used to deceive or manipulate.
  • sleight noun Skillful, quick trickery, especially in performing a deceptive feat with the hands.
  • subterfuge noun A trick or deceptive scheme used to avoid something or achieve a hidden goal.

Senses

Täuschung is used for these senses in English:

  • chicanery (uncountable) Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  • deceit An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
  • deceit (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
  • deception An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
  • delusion The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
  • delusion That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
  • fallacy Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
  • guile Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

chicanery — full definition

  1. noun Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  2. noun An individual act of trickery or deception.
  3. noun The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

deceit — full definition

  1. noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
  2. noun In law, a false statement made knowingly or recklessly to trick someone into relying on it, causing them harm.

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