Crossword-Solution: DECEPTIVENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deceptiveness | n. | The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “DECEPTIVENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| speciousness | 12 answers |
| spuriousness | 12 answers |
| sophism | 18 answers |
| CASUISTRY | 20 answers |
| sophistry | 24 answers |
| falsity | 26 answers |
| hollowness | 27 answers |
| falseness | 47 answers |
| Fallacy | 67 answers |
| delusion | 71 answers |
| fiddle | 78 answers |
| equivocation | 79 answers |
| inaccuracy | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with DECEPTIVENESS (5)
The perception was that an immediate marriage COULD be contrived; the conviction that such an act, in spite of its daring, its fathomless results, its deceptiveness, would be preferred by each to the life they must lead under any other conditions.
The resemblance to a leaf, for instance of a particular Kallima, seems to us so close as to be deceptive, and yet we find in another individual, or it may be in many others, a spot added which increases the resemblance, and which could not have become fixed unless the increased deceptiveness so produced had frequently led to the overlooking of its much persecuted possessor.
Whether the bird which is seeking or pursuing the butterflies takes these holes for dewdrops, or for the work of a devouring insect, does not affect the question; the mirror-like spot undoubtedly increases the general deceptiveness, for the same thing occurs in many leaf-butterflies, though not in all, and in some cases it is replaced in quite a peculiar manner.
The women who erected it into an obligation are the first to realize its deceptiveness, and, amidst so much homage without heat, to pine for the communicative warmth of a powerful sentiment.--The character of the century obtains its last trait and "the man of feeling comes on the stage.
There is a thing in the air of our beautiful slopes which makes the people of a great instinctive musicalness and deceptiveness, with passions like those burning in the old mountain we have there.
Quotes with DECEPTIVENESS (1)
Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some secret which certainly Lily Briscoe believed people must have for the world to go on at all? Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was. But if they knew, could they tell one what they knew? Sitting on the floor with her arms round Mrs. Ramsay’s knees, close …