deceive
IPA: dɪsˈiv
verb
- (transitive) To trick or mislead.
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Examples of "deceive" in Sentences
- The plot is meant to deceive the enemy.
- Why is he trying to wile or deceive them
- Never the less it can deceive the most careless.
- A brazen contrivence intended to deceive the uninitiated.
- Deception requires that the deceiver is aware of the truth.
- h. 264, "Ipod video" (. m4v): Don't let the name deceive you!
- The patient is deceived and the practitioner deceives himself.
- They want deceive the readers about the identity of this pretender.
- They want to deceive the readers about the identity of this pretender.
- I myself am very fond of the plain cheese pizza, but don't let the name deceive you.
- Baltar’s ability to deceive is clearly second-nature, do we really want to find out what else he’s been hiding?
- Sinners herein deceive themselves, for, though the sentence be not executed speedily, it will be executed the more severely at last.
- (don't let the name deceive you, it just monitors bandwidth of your phone's data connection, regardless of the way it connects, be it HSDPA, 3G, GPRS etc).
- I made this cake about three weeks ago for no particular reason other than I wanted to make a plain 'homey' cake but don't let the simplicity of the name deceive you.
- Thomas Paine, during the Revolutionary War, argued in The Crisis that there are serious moments in the life of a country when "to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind of mutual consent, to the impositions of each other."
- Appearances, however, which have been deceptive before, may again deceive; and the history of nations teams with proofs that when once they have overstepped the bounds of reason, albeit with the purpose of returning when their ends shall have been accomplished, the very events which their own passion has produced frequently raise a barrier against their retreat, and nulla vestigia retrorsum becomes their doom.