There was no dissembling, no clever deception in her fear.

An apple in a basket of fruit proved to be a clever deception.

Some modern illusionists believe that it is unethical to give a performance which claims to be anything other than a clever and skillful deception.

It requires clever deception and most of all belief.

The movement to the east had been a clever deception.

Skeptics suspected this was nothing but clever deception and fraud.

We've just got to think quicker, draw sooner, create more clever deceptions than crime does.

Truly clever deceptions in the Federal budget are the ones that never come to light, but now and then a lulu makes the news.

"You would hardly believe the sights that book has shown to me, though whether they are true sights or clever deceptions, I cannot tell."

Worse, he had succeeded in stealing ten million dollars by a clever deception.