While awaiting Clarke's arrival, Wavell initiated a successful deception against the Italian forces at Sidi Barrani.

It's unclear even today exactly who this effort was intended to impress -foreign air forces or Germany's public - but it seems to have been a successful deception.

The operation was one of the most successful military deceptions employed during the war and, arguably, the most important.

He later remarked that is was difficult for him as a student to essentially start over again and learn to read music after several years of successful deception and progress.

Trompement - The action of hitting an opponent at the end of a feint, after a successful deception.

Of what I have suffered in secret since my own successful deception established me under Lady Janet's care I shall say nothing.

Because there is something magical in the suggestion of gold or coal or copper taken out of the ground, sharpers have made mining an instrument of successful deception.

It was not surprise, as a result of a successful deception which caused the front line to break during the infantry attacks but a failure to have sufficient reserves available to mount effective counterattacks.

Before he went, though, a stiff gin and tonic to celebrate yet another successful deception.

To know when to use the truth was the essence of successful deception.