"great deception" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It's often used to describe a particularly clever or effective lie. For example, "She managed to pull off a great deception and get away with it."
Macmillan (1998)"The Great Deception", by Christopher Booker and Richard North.
This is a great deception that many female MBA's in recent years have even balked at, choosing to leave their career wholesale and stay at home and raise children.
"Guys like [Greg] Kimbrel, [Aroldis] Chapman and Holland have both, cartoon stuff and great deception, and that's where you get the stupid numbers.
This abuse of power is fueled by what Jean Paul Sartre believed was the great deception that leads to human suffering; the pursuit of and valuing things over humanness.
Speaking to a Baptist group during his tenure as drug czar, Bennett told attendees the following: "I continue to be amazed how often people I talked to in drug treatment centers talk about drugs as the great lie, the great deception – indeed a product, one could argue, of the great deceiver, the great deceiver everyone knows.
"The greatest deception here is this is not one nation under God.
But Lawrence's greatest deception was not to his readers but to his Arab colleagues.
But at the same time, he didn't sound that sorry – and more recently, he described the focus on Srebrenica as "the greatest deception of the 20th century".
Perhaps he's living on the Rive Gauche and DHL-ing his tapes to Pakistan in the greatest deception operation in terrorist history.
The Lions may want to consider merging their run and pass games more to add greater deception to their fairly static offense.
It is this insecurity – existing, pervasive, worsening, global vulnerability of our infrastructure, communications and rights – that has been the greatest deception in this battle to date.
