Definition: 1. Be false to; be dishonest with. 2. Cause someone to believe an untruth.
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Use 'deceive' in a sentence:
1. He lost his arts upon the girl; he could deceive my father, but none else.
2. Don't make up a lie to deceive us.
3. The children don't know that you can do something with the intent to deceive.
4. Don't be deceived by her flatteries.
5. Lie7: I never can deceive you.
6. Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.
7. You're deceiving yourself if you think he'll change his mind.
8. Don't go for looks; they can deceive.
9. I detest those who deceive me.
10. Her husband had been deceiving her for years.
11. Descartes thinks that since our senses can deceive us, we ought not take for granted that what they tell us is really true.
12. Jeff deceived me once already ─ I won't give him a second chance.
13. Appearances can deceive, ecologists caution, and many of these exotics may be considered acceptable only because no one has documented their harmful effects.
14. It is to deceive the whole country and the princess too!
15. If you can make the last 10 seconds exciting, you can deceive your audience into thinking it's been like that all along.
16. How could I deceive you?
17. I have been deceived in what he said.
18. His attempt to deceive us was foiled.
19. Nobody will be deceived by you.
20. He thought he knew his wife through, until she deceived him.
21. He was too certain of her love to be deceived by such talk.
22. Don't deceive under any circumstance.
23. He deceived her by pretending to be a famous movie star.
24. People who we thought to be our friends but we found out that they were talking behind our backs, or that they were operating to deceive us in some way.
25. Twas done to deceive me--tis plain 'twas done to gain time.
26. He stole, lied, deceived and pimped his way out of poverty.
27. In fact, he might be concealing his ability to deceive you.
28. You shall not deceive me. I know the thing to be impossible.
29. But the idea that animals of the same species intentionally deceive each other, I have never heard that before.
30. We were deceived into buying that house.
31. Could you love your neighbor as yourself and deceive him?
32. I was cruelly deceived.
33. She deceived him into handing over all his savings.
34. He didn't mean to deceive you, it was just a joke.
35. Her tears were just a trick to deceive others.
36. We shouldn't deceive ourselves.
37. Yet appearances can deceive, ecologists caution, and many of these exotics may be considered acceptable only because no one has documented their harmful effects.
38. She won't deceive you.
39. What a shame to deceive the girl!
40. Don't try to deceive me.
41. His gentle, kindly appearance did not deceive me.
42. Sometimes though people will violate maxims for another purpose: to deceive.
43. There is no attempt to deceive.
44. He has deceived and disillusioned us all.
45. Or so it has long seemed. Appearances deceive, though.
46. He asked her pardon for having deceived her.
47. Nobody can deceive him.
48. In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional MRI machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain.
49. Alcoholics are notorious for their ability to deceive themselves about the extent of their problem.
50. Unless my eyes deceive me, that's his wife.
51. He thinks by all his fast talking and flattery he can pull the wool over her eyes, but she isn't deceived.
52. The boys, if my eyes did not deceive me, were praying.
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