deception vs bill of goods

bill of goods vs deception

deception and bill of goods both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deception	Yes	No	No	No
bill of goods	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bill of goods is a hyponym of deception; that is, bill of goods is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deception:

deception: a misleading falsehood
bill of goods: communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable

Other hyponyms of deception include humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade, window dressing, exaggeration, magnification, overstatement, snow job, dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense, blind, subterfuge, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, duplicity, fraudulence, equivocation, evasion.

deception (noun)	bill of goods (noun)
the act of deceiving	a consignment of merchandise
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers	communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable
a misleading falsehood

Difference between deception and bill of goods

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