Sentence examples for downright deception from inspiring English sources

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Any spin they publicise to the contrary is at best misleading and at worst downright deception.

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We asked our Twitter followers to divulge the fibs they told their exes, from harmless white lies to downright dirty deceptions.

At worst the statement is downright cynicism, at best self-serving self-deception.

With the presidential and congressional campaigns in the home stretch, the quadrennial contest for deception, misdirection, fact-bending, half-truths, and downright lies, in other words, the challenge to win the hearts and minds of voters, is in full swing.

It has a downright hostile take on the new wave of devolution, calling it a "cruel deception" and claiming that "there are no constitutional answers to economic problems", which is not the Manchester position at all.

COULD there be a single phrase that explains the woes of our time, this dismal age of political miscalculations and deceptions, of reckless and disastrous wars, of financial boom and bust and downright criminality?

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Ultimately, deception will beget deception.

"There's no deception.

Why the deception?

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