How To Use Deceive In A Sentence
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Her partner deceives her, but she doesn't know it; her children fail, but she is told they succeed; she believes she has the admiration of others, but they laugh at her behind her back.
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And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.
Letters to Dead Authors
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Ge 3: 16, woman's "subjection" is represented as the consequence of her being deceived. being deceived -- The oldest manuscripts read the compound Greek verb for the simple, "Having been seduced by deceit": implying how completely
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The 22-year-old has often flattered to deceive during the opening phase of the campaign.
The Sun
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I have been told that many of them wear patent complexions, "boughten" bangs, and pad out scrawny forms until they appear voluptuous Junos, and thereby deceive and ensnare, bedazzle and beguile the unsuspecting sons of men.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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This woman clearly deceived two people, and perhaps more.
The Sun
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Unless looks deceive so convincingly, he does not look indigent and like someone in state of abject poverty; more like a man in full control of his bearing, faculties and appearance.
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Belgium have flattered to deceive for about five years now.
The Sun
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Sharp-sighted viewers alone will note the warning signs of owls or demons and realize that the most visible figures of the foreground are all deceivers.
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He flattered to deceive last season and has dropped down the weights as a result.
The Sun
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This is how the deceivers are deceived, for he who can cozen me is shrewd indeed.
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To remove a conviction so generally adopted, Quentin easily saw was impossible — nay, that any attempt to undeceive men so obstinately prepossessed in their belief, would be attended with personal risk, which, in this case, he saw little use of incurring.
Quentin Durward
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Self-confessed shoplifter, embezzler and small-town deceiver.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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And I had come to be oppressed by what seemed to me the futility of art -- a pompous legerdemain, a consummate charlatanry that deceived not only its devotees but its practitioners.
CHAPTER II
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But later on it was discovered that the observers had been deceived in the body, and that what they had seen was an aerolite.
Robur the Conqueror
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This is one car whose looks in no way flatter to deceive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stanley winger Rory Prendergast opened the scoring on 24 minutes with a low drive from outside the box that deceived Altrincham keeper Richard Acton.
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For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
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Adding to the evils of status-seeking is that people often deceive themselves and others into believing that they are doing something for a higher motive when in fact they are seeking status.
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The principle behind a chain letter is basically the same as a pyramid scheme, except that with chain letters, you don't have to deceive yourself as much as with pyramid schemes.
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Camilla again denied the charge, and strove to prevail with her to undeceive the Baronet from any false expectations.
Camilla
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Friendship¾Mercenary Marriages¾The De ceiver deceived ¾ How to rule a Wife.
Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
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You have twin goals: to help partner and deceive declarer.
Times, Sunday Times
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But again, unless one is really honest, absolutely frank, and does not subtly deceive oneself, what I have said can be used to exploit further.
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Don't be deceived bt greedy, lying, dishonest Insurance executives and fradulent lobbyists working for them .....
President Obama heads back to familiar city
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His first name means in Latin "wrath" or "vengence," and the second name is in the English language appropriate to the important office which our duped and deceived friend did receive in said
Secret Enemies of True Republicanism
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And he that appeals to Heaven must be sure he has right on his side, and a right, too, that is worth the trouble and cost of the appeal, as he will answer at a tribunal that cannot be deceived, and will be sure to retribute to every one according to the mischiefs he hath created to his fellow-subjects that is, any part of mankind.
Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II
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As to the term philosopher's stone, he alleged that it was a mere figure, to deceive the vulgar.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828
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He that once deceived is never suspected.
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Her "Potemkin villages" had deceived the self-important pundit into endorsing absolutism, just as Jean-Paul Sartre would prove vain enough to applaud Stalin.
Why They All Came to Versailles
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One deceived his grandparents into giving him cash for his phone bills.
The Sun
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They don't want to deceive each other with illusory promises of undying love.
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Christ his pattern, which it is his duty to express in his own; and he who takes up Christianity on any other terms doth woefully deceive his own soul.
Pneumatologia
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I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.]
Old Calabria
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He has deceived and disillusioned us all.
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She questions my claim that people soon wake up to this and are not deceived by it.
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Inveraray for some time; so that it was probable we should be there as soon as he: however, I did not undeceive my friend, but suffered him to enjoy his fancy.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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The manner he continued to deceive people and think he could get away with it is unbelievable.
The Sun
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Carefully coded, to deceive hoards of information hungry pressmen waiting in Kathmandu, the two were charged with delivering the momentous breakthrough.
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Alcoholics are notorious for their ability to deceive themselves about the extent of their problem.
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Covering force units attrite the enemy, deceive him as to the location of the MBA, slow his speed of advance, cause him to mass, and may cause him to divulge his intentions.
FM 90-4 Chapter 4
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She's been deceived by three people in her life and has lost two friends as well as the boyfriend she thought was special.
The Sun
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‘I was deceived by this person, and I want my money back,’ Mr Khudier said.
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Under the smart of this new desire Rosalie set the stitches of her worsted-work with exquisite precision, and hid her meditations under a little innocent air, which shammed simplicity to deceive
Albert Savarus
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You have twin goals: to help partner and deceive declarer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I can't believe she consciously deceived us, but it is possible that these ventriloquistic voices have become a subconscious habit.
The Shadow World
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Psychologist Ray Hyman provides a very telling example of how gurus and true believers can deceive themselves into believing what has been demonstrated to be false.
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'That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you undeceive them?'
Chapter 15
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You deceiver! the hymn is without the interlineal version for the non-Iranians.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
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And Carrots stood beside auntie's knee, clasping his little mother Floss's hand tight, and looking up in auntie's face with those wonderful eyes of his, which auntie had said truly one could not deceive; and when he had been told all there was to tell, he just said softly, Oh poor mamma!
"Carrots": Just a Little Boy
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A person who is trying to deceive needs to think more about what they are doing, so they may drift off or pause as they think about what to say or hesitate during speech.
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A good argument canbe made that the gas station owner is using the Pemex name and logo to deceive the public, which could be supported by his customer demographics and his admission that he got the idea after visiting Mexico tashby
Laugh of the day
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However, several genera lack a nectariferous disc, or if they possess a disc it is non-secretory; some of these simply mimic nectar-providing flowers and thus deceive the pollinator.
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He has deliberately deceived us.
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Do not be deceived into throwing away a decent offer in pursuit of pie in the sky.
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He that deceives me once, shame fall him, if he deceives me twice, shame fall me.
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All those who were in any manner connected with the contemplated expedition disclaimed the idea of treasonable designs, averring that, if such were the views of Colonel Burr, they had been deceived.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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We knew we didn't deceive these people and had told their story.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the meaning of the word, just as Wittgenstein wanted us to believe (in order that we might be undeceived about how our words work), lies in its use in the language.
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If he is cheating he is sure prepared to go the extra mile to deceive us.
Times, Sunday Times
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To deceive by sly or underhand means; cheat.
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Appearances did not deceive.
Times, Sunday Times
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waggled" his club so as to deceive those who know the game.
John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life
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A good example of when to use this is during discussions with someone who is very mistrustful and tends to be suspicious that the other person is trying to cheat or deceive him.
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Our natural anticipations deceive us -- I say _natural_ in contra-distinction to extravagant expectations.
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
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Now state regulators are reviewing an anonymous e-mail from someone claiming that during tests leading up to the Feb. 1 "cutover," FairPoint created a computer program "to deceive the audience into believing they were watching a real demonstration" of its readiness.
The News Tribune Blogs
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The club's penchant for flattering only to deceive is now way beyond a joke.
Times, Sunday Times
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After watching the pilot DVD in stunned silence, I had to check a few episodes on disk 2 of the four DVD set, just to make sure that my eyes hadn't deceived me.
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The embattled minister refused to be drawn yesterday on accusations that he had deceived the public before the election when he insisted that no spending cuts were planned.
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Even in Christendom, it is presumed our minds and hearts are frequently deceived.
C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth)
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He has flattered to deceive in their opening three league games.
The Sun
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To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
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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.
The Secession Movement in America
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And in the rivers, where the deceivers, fraudful both in heart and word, had shown unto the saint a deep abyss instead of a safe ford, passed he over safely, having first blessed the passage, and changed the abyss into a ford; and the ford which before was pervious unto all changed he unto a deep abyss.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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Come, bring forth this counterfeit model: he has deceived me, like a double-meaning prophesier.
Act IV. Scene III. All’s Well that Ends Well
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God, who seeth at all times, and in every place, will be displeased with those who deceive their parents.
Archive 2009-03-01
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He that once deceives is ever suspected.
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Belief - secular or religious - could deceive you if your are not careful. Dr T.P.Chia
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Such a skeptic denies we could know most of the things we take ourselves to know, because we cannot rule out the logical possibility that we are massively deceived about the world.
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His best work, often direct copies of authentic Maori artefacts, deceived art experts and collectors around the world.
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In Mozart's joyous opera, fidelity is tested, emotions are betrayed and lovers deceived when a cynical gentleman challenges two fiancés to a bet.
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These statistics have been employed to suggest that a lot of evidently happily married women are faithless and untrustworthy people who have ruthlessly deceived their unsuspecting husbands.
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Hayes asserted that he had been deceived by the southern promises to maintain order.
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She's been deceived by three people in her life and has lost two friends as well as the boyfriend she thought was special.
The Sun
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He repudiated the allegation/charge/claim that he had tried to deceive them.
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Belief - secular or religious - could deceive you if your are not careful. Dr T.P.Chia
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When once deceived, however, or undeceived about the character of a person, he became utterly incredulous, and he saluted this fine speech of my lord's with a sardonical, inward laughter, preserving his gravity, however, and scarce allowing any of his scorn to appear in his words.
The Virginians
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“What do those deserve, who deliberately utter falsehoods,” continued the Monk, “who deceive, and slatter young men to their destruction?”
The Italian
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A person who has actually been deceived by their partner feels threatened, robbed, deceived and cheated, and is left feeling jealous and torn between love and hate.
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He didn't deceive himself that he and Ruth could remain friends.
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Ships, towns, and whole armies might fly or display false arms to deceive the enemy.
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He repudiated the allegation/charge/claim that he had tried to deceive them.
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Online ticketing scams are the fastest growing area of fraud as thousands of people are deceived into paying huge sums for non-existent tickets, police have warned.
Times, Sunday Times
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BESIDES BEING the name of an aquatic bird, the word gull is also a verb that means “to deceive or cheat” according to the American Heritage College Dictionary.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible
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Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive.
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They trace the word to the piratical practice of flying a flag or ensign other than one's own in order to deceive a passing ship or unwitting harbormaster about a vessel's true identity.
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This article pretty well sums it up… ‘those in power often have to deceive their own uncomprehending citizens in order to protect the nation’.
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Deceivers, in the eighth circle of hell, are put into ten subdivisions, including seducers, flatterers, hypocrites, and false counsellors.
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Yeah well I can get a bit testy myself about being deceived, which is why the rest of this article is such an insult.
Firedoglake » Gold Bars Spins Back (How Could He Resist?)
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Why did so many conservatives see the president not simply as a detested opponent but as a cheater, a deceiver, a beguiler, and a rogue?
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Her daughter was a young lady, whom by appearance in England, you would call somewhere in her teens; but, hereaway they are so precocious that one is constantly deceived in guessing their age.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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His friendly manner did not deceive us for long.
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Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. Jonathan Swift
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Online ticketing scams are the fastest growing area of fraud as thousands of people are deceived into paying huge sums for non-existent tickets, police have warned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The premise of the show was to trick and deceive people.
The Sun
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Such a skeptic denies we could know most of the things we take ourselves to know, because we cannot rule out the logical possibility that we are massively deceived about the world.
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No matter how old or young, the object is to deceive the parents into thinking that this changeling is actually their child.
Excerpt: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
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It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice.
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The utopian, 'greenie' self-deceived BBC ignores the negative evidence about wind farms, which Christopher Booker and others have exposed, e.g.
JUST SO MUCH WIND..
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He that deceives me once, shame fall him, if he deceives me twice, shame fall me.
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It looks like a reward for grievous failure; and the appearance does not deceive.
Times, Sunday Times
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By bluffing and faking, you have to somehow provoke and deceive this system of defense.
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It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice.
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Patients with anorexia nervosa often attempt to deceive health care professionals because they do not want treatment for their disorder.
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He choked up while describing a little boy who had been deceived by a charlatan faith healer.
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Euphemism can be used in English to comfort, tolerate, deceive, construct, even iron and scorn.
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CHERNOFF: faa says there was no intent to deceive anyone about what we were doing.
CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009
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Those indications which the physicians receive, and those presagitions which they give for death or recovery in the patient, they receive and they give out of the grounds and the rules of their art; but we have no such rule or art to give a presagition of spiritual death and damnation upon any such indication as we see in any dying man; we see often enough to be sorry, but not to despair; we may be deceived both ways: we use to comfort ourself in the death of a friend, if it be testified that he went away like a lamb, that is, without any reluctation; but God knows that may be accompanied with a dangerous damp and stupefaction, and insensibility of his present state.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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He had tried to deceive employers and police by changing his middle name from Phillip to Clayton.
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‘We shouldn't deceive ourselves about this man,’ the president said.
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What that tells me is that right now, whatever is being reported could be information to deceive and mislead people.
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It is an acknowledgment that you are weak-minded, cowardly, can be deceived and manipulated, and easily conned out of your money.
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Lucy herself is seen neither as pitiable victim nor heroic coper: she is a liar, self-deceiver and ruthless exploiter of her mother's private wealth but also someone whose recovery hinges on a confrontation with truth.
Knot of the Heart – review
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To complete the effect, she makes Jacob wear goatskin to approximate Esau's hairiness, a maneuver that successfully deceives Isaac and results in Isaac's mistakenly blessing him instead of Esau.
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Omega Scorpii, a star, looks like a fifth moon, so don't be deceived.
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I have found it difficult at times to deceive him because he reads the length and the spin so quickly!
Times, Sunday Times
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– Such is the foundation on which stands his pretensions to disinterestedness, which were only assumed to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambition, and to deceive those whom he afterwards meant to enslave.
Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
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People of this stamp certainly look better outwardly than the immoral and profane, and yet, perhaps, are more thoroughly deceived by the great adversary of souls.
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Now was Arriguccio so furiously enflamed, that hee must needes bee further resolved in this apparant doubt: and because therein hee would not be deceived, softly he cut the thred from his wives toe, and made it fast about his owne; to trye what successe would ensue thereon.
The Decameron
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This is one car whose looks in no way flatter to deceive.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are not going to be tricked or deceived any more.
Times, Sunday Times
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Misguided explorers, hopeless romantics, deluded legionaries, quacks, misfits, visionaries, obsessives, the deceivers and the deceived, they love all that emptiness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice.
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`No. As I said earlier, we were both deceived by your sea-green Control.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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His attempt to deceive us was foiled.
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And this I shall do that we be not deceived with the homonymy of the word, nor be at a loss in the intention of those places of
Pneumatologia
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I. iii.53 (410,5) Are ye fantastical] By _fantastical_, he means creatures of fantasy or imagination; the question is, Are these real beings before us, or are we deceived by illusions of fancy?
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Fie upon thee! man needs should have some certain test set up to try his friends, some touchstone of their hearts, to know each friend whether he be true or false; all men should have two voices, one the voice of honesty, expediency's the other, so would honesty confute its knavish opposite, and then we could not be deceived.
Hippolytus
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Either he sought to deceive the gullible, or, as is more likely, was himself overcredulous.
The Mistakes of Jesus
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It is lawful for publicans to swear that is an oblation which is not; that you are of the king's retinue when you are not," &c. that is, publicans may deceive, and that by oath.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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He said: ‘Elderly householders are vulnerable to plausible deceivers who create anxiety by claiming to observe defects in their houses and then offer to repair them.’
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One deceived his grandparents into giving him cash for his phone bills.
The Sun
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Pray undeceive my Mother with regard to the agreeable mistake as to the repairs —
Letter 96
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Ancient Greek religion, what we call mythology, tells the same story as the Book of Genesis,(sentence dictionary) except that the serpent is the enlightener of mankind rather than our deceiver.
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Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Here is noted, that in domestical separations and breaches men do promise to themselves quieting of their mind and contentment; but still they are deceived of their expectation, and it turneth to wind.
The Advancement of Learning
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His methods are crafty and cunning, he is the master deceiver.
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He deceived us into believing that he could give us moral support.
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When chasing bass I would always want a few Clousers minnows in various colours especially chartreuse and white, some Lefty Kreh Deceivers, and a few sand eel patterns and poppers.
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Thou shalt not defraud, that is, deceive or beguile.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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This action was part of a conspiracy to deceive the public.
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In the 1980s, some primatologists noticed that monkeys and apes - unlike other mammals - sometimes deceived members of their own species, in order to trick them out of food or sneak off for some furtive courtships.
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He that once deceived is never suspected.
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When asked to produce his driving licence, Smith, 41, admitted he had deceived his insurers into believing he was a motorcyclist with several years' experience.
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The premise of the show was to trick and deceive people.
The Sun
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They began promisingly enough and twice eased in front in the early minutes, but they did no more than flatter to deceive and were a well beaten side long before the hour had run its course.
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.
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Appearances did not deceive.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's been deceived by three people in her life and has lost two friends as well as the boyfriend she thought was special.
The Sun
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That is the sort of dense-skinned ignorance which makes one unspeakably angry -- the ignorance which, because it has heard of or read a letter from some brave-hearted youngster, making light of hardships for his mother's sake, therefore flies to the conclusion that everything written and spoken about the horrors of this war is humbug, and what the Army calls "eyewash" -- a big conspiracy to deceive the people who are not there.
Letters from France
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The priests must have deceived him, so he wasted no time in arguing with them; he ran, with his guards behind him, to the outer wall of Siva's temple where the horses waited, each with a saice squatting at his head.
Rung Ho
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He deceived us into the belief that he was an honest man.
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People can absorb anything if they are not deceived or treated arrogantly.
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Wherein is declared, what craft and subtilty some wily wits can devise, to deceive the simple, and compasse their owne desires.
The Decameron
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This woman clearly deceived two people, and perhaps more.
The Sun
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If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder's craft, or stock new navies to the end of time.
Cape Cod
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That is, (if the obtuse language doesn't deceive me), within the law.
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10, "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:" where _especially_ distinguishes
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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Those who have deceived the people or the representatives of the people, in order to lead them into undertakings contrary to the interests of liberty; Those who have sought to inspire discouragement, in order to favor the enterprises of the tyrants leagued against the Republic; those who have disseminated false news in order to divide or disturb the people;
Annotations
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One deceived his grandparents into giving him cash for his phone bills.
The Sun
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His friendly manner did not deceive us for long.
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Wherein is contained, how hard a thing it is, to distinguish goodnesse from hypocrisie; and how (under the shadow of holinesse) the wickednesse of one man, may deceive many
The Decameron
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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.
Archive 2008-01-01
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It was said; and we retired under the pretence of seeking repose, each fancying that the other was deceived: but when at morning's dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there — my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my
Chapter 3
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Müller, Dr. Fritz, on inhabitants of bromelia leaves, 118 on butterfly, deceived by its mimic, 245 his explanation of mimicry among protected genera, 252
Darwinism (1889)
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Deceived, Olive abandoned herself to the plausive charm of Violet's manner, and at different times she spoke of her flirtation, and told many little incidents concerning it -- what he had said to her, how she had answered him, and how, the last time they had met, he had expressed his sorrow at being unable to call to see her until the end of the week.
Muslin
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This woman clearly deceived two people, and perhaps more.
The Sun
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Mr. Lugo-Galicia reports that he was "irate," and launched recriminations against his closest confidants saying, "they lied to me, they deceived me.
Showdown at Fort Tiuna
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To be double-tongued is to speak with a forked tongue, to be a liar and a deceiver, while a word wrester is one who picks and chooses his own interpretation of scripture in order to have it conform to his own lifestyle, rather than modifying his lifestyle according to the standard doctrine of his faith.
Languagehat.com: DOUBLE-TONGUED WORD WRESTER.
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That thought of being so scared and undeceived, strangely shuddering with doubt gave her a rude awakening to something she never had experienced before.
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The nine years she deceived people and lived the life of a wealthy woman should be what she spends in jail.
The Sun
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Online ticketing scams are the fastest growing area of fraud as thousands of people are deceived into paying huge sums for non-existent tickets, police have warned.
Times, Sunday Times
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He who reported this to your Majesty deceived you, for there are not only a hundred houses occupied by Sangleys who remain here for negotiations with their merchandise, but more than [_blank space in MS_.] who live in the alcaiceria of this city, called Parián, and more than [_blank space in MS_.] [39] in all the neighborhood.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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Things are not always seen , the first appearance deceives many.
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Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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A federal court has ruled that the defendant tobacco companies deliberately deceived the American public by falsely selling and advertising low tar and light cigarettes as less harmful than regular cigarettes.
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Never did we more greatly marvel at the mercy of God, which holds back his thunderbolts from destroying those wretched shavelings who deceive the people.
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Come, bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived me, like a double-meaning prophesier.
All’s Well That Ends Well
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You would not encourage such a deceiver? Dismiss her, by all means, at once!
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It is false marking to mark as patented an unpatented article if done with the intent to deceive the public and as such, is a fineable offense.
Revitalizing false patent marking
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Never was affliction so cutting as hers; she imputed the piercingness of it to what had happened that day, and believed that if the Duke de Nemours had not had ground to believe she loved him she should not have cared whether he loved another or not; but she deceived herself, and this evil which she found so insupportable was jealousy with all the horrors it can be accompanied with.
The Princess of Cleves
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The premise of the show was to trick and deceive people.
The Sun
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It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice.
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Mr O'Loughlin deceived the LDA about his company's financial health and overcharged it by more than £50,000.
Archive 2008-01-01
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But if the condyloma be higher up, you must examine it with the speculum, and you should take care not to be deceived by the speculum; for when expanded, it renders the condyloma level with the surrounding parts, but when contracted, it shows the tumor right again.
On Hemorrhoids
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The manner he continued to deceive people and think he could get away with it is unbelievable.
The Sun