What's the difference between deception and dissembling?

Deception


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading.
  • (n.) The state of being deceived or misled.
  • (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had to see off a driven and capable Everton team and Roberto Martínez was not being disingenuous when he said the final score felt like a deception.
  • (2) The surgeon uses the scalpel rather than the prescription pad, but this fact is deceptive.
  • (3) Trump, embracing the spirit of the “lock her up” mob chants at his rallies, threatened: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation – there has never been so many lies and so much deception,” he threatened.
  • (4) According to the model, deception is perceived from nonverbal behavior that violates normative expectation.
  • (5) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
  • (6) Doppler ultrasound has been used to determine the pressure gradient P1-P2 across the valve in patients with aortic stenosis (AS), but since the gradient varies over time and may be deceptively low in patients with impaired cardiac output, the key parameter to obtain is the orifice area (A).
  • (7) This is a pattern of confusion, or deliberate deception, repeated in countless cases of missing persons who were later tracked down to Bagram.
  • (8) It is clear from the results of the pilot study that it was the sex offenders' belief that the polygraph would detect deception that led to the increase in disclosures.
  • (9) The social changes of the sixties and seventies resulted in a "tolerance at arm's length" for pedophiles, which proved to be deceptive when the Dutch government proposed to lower the age of consent in 1985.
  • (10) Neurologic manifestations may be deceptively mild and easily overlooked or misinterpreted, particularly in the very young, because of the remarkable resiliency of the immature central nervous system and the skull's ability to expand throughout the pre-adolescent years.
  • (11) Intraspecific incompatibility, although generally having a deceptively simple genetic basis, has proved to be surprisingly diverse in its physiological manifestations.
  • (12) But that is the deception offered up by Ranieri’s collective.
  • (13) There, he left a cryptic comment under his own name: “1 of the most deceptive books ever.” Fans began to reply angrily, questioning whether this could possibly be the real Alex.
  • (14) The row between the BBC and LSE broke on Saturday when the university accused the corporation of deception and of using its students as human shields to sneak into North Korea.
  • (15) In contrast to the deceptively stable appearance, the patient is at increased risk due to delayed onset, recognition, and therapy.
  • (16) Although physical abuse was primarily related to impression management, psychological abuse was affected by both impression management and self-deception aspects of SDR.
  • (17) Rachel Dolezal's deception: her 'black' identity doesn't make sense – or make her black Read more Dolezal has been a regular face at local demonstrations and on TV channels, and has made the news on numerous occasions for the graphic hate mail she has received, including nooses left at her home.
  • (18) False and deceptive advertising though is the grounds for court action as well as license revocation.
  • (19) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
  • (20) Atlético’s supporters had broken into spontaneous applause for their team as soon as Bale put Carlo Ancelotti’s side ahead, and the ovation did not stop even when the game ran away from them and the score started to feel like a deception.

Dissembling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissemble
  • (a.) That dissembles; hypocritical; false.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, in HeLa, a human epithelial cell, keratin-containing IFB appear to dissemble as cells enter mitosis (Franke, W. W., E. Schmid, C. Grund, and B. Geiger, 1982, Cell, 30:103-113).
  • (2) Steps of knowledge as well as social structures institutionalizing its dissembling are described.
  • (3) The scaremongering, dissembling and misrepresentation of the no campaign will be ramped up as we approach polling day."
  • (4) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
  • (5) A paranoid strain is manifest in Stoic utterances generally, especially in the Stoic conception of autarky, where the Sage regards himself as distinctly "other" in the midst of society, and indifferent to its values, except as he dissembles his indifference.
  • (6) These presentations of the devious ease with which the Vatican dissembles also clearly serve as a metaphor for the Catholic church’s unwillingness to address the scandals of priestly paedophilia.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Apple’s robot, Liam, dissembles iPhones.
  • (8) Why you should read it: Rifkind makes an insightful connection between Trump’s dissembling used car salesmanship and the loserverse of so-called “ pick-up artists ”, which he explored as a journalist a decade ago.
  • (9) In particular, observers will be watching to see whether the moderators are prepared to ask leading contenders some of the hard questions that have surfaced in recent days about apparent dissembling over their personal histories.
  • (10) The data suggest that synaptic vesicle membrane is dissembled at the time of transmitter release and then is reassembled at sites along the plasma membrane and internalized in the form of large cisternae, from which new vesicles are formed.
  • (11) The pretence that Labour is anything else always reeked of the Westminster dissembling and inauthenticity that drives voters away.
  • (12) None!” Such dissembling raised a wry smile for close observers of Murdoch, and for that matter of Arthur Sulzberger Jr, publisher of the New York Times.
  • (13) His focus on children’s social and social services might be characterised as calculating, opaque, a liability and dissembling (cold).
  • (14) Student social workers: 'I'm deeply concerned about the future' Read more Finally, he is dissembling because in his speeches he talks about trusts and other non-profit arrangements being set up as an alternative to local authorities providing children’s social work and child protection services.
  • (15) The model is related to X-ray diffraction data and optical birefringence, considering dissembly at gelatinization.
  • (16) It would be near-impossible to record each and every occasion Morrison dissembled, misled or was downright inaccurate.
  • (17) The contention is that a man – a republican – who was just swept to power on the basis that he means what he says and that he doesn’t tack and dissemble should within just a few days destroy that brand by doing something that everyone will know is insincere and unfamiliar to him.
  • (18) Budget 2017: Hammond rejects charge he broke Tory manifesto promise Read more First of all, as proved by Hammond’s painful media rounds the morning after the budget, no amount of dissembling can disguise the fact that the NI hike is a brazen breaking of a 2015 Tory manifesto – “We can commit to no increases in VAT, income tax or national insurance” – which blurred out into no end of rhetoric about how the mere idea of pushing up national insurance was the stuff of economic calamity.
  • (19) His cartoons often feature ugly caricatures of dissembling local politicians.
  • (20) In dissembling perfected by years of betrayal, Philby had earlier distanced himself from Burgess.

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