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Deceiving vs Designing - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between deceiving and designing

is that deceiving is present participle of lang=en while designing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between deceiving and designing

is that deceiving is deception while designing is a process of design.

As an adjective designing is

artful; scheming.

deceiving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • deception
  • * Bible, 2 Peter 2:13
    • And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you

    designing

    English

    (design)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • artful; scheming
    • a designing man

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process of design.
  • * 1829 , Richard Carlile, The Lion
    • Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?