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Example Sentences

He's polite and amusing, inventing comic voices to deceive friends.

What: Your eyes do not deceive you: Fishman is looking into more than one thing.

When we meet thus, when we do honor to the dead in terms that must sometimes embrace the living, we do not deceive ourselves.

If you deceive your children about Santa, you may give them a more thrilling experience of Christmas.

Then again … as I said, for a forgery to deceive at all, it has to preserve a great many features of a genuine object.

However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.

There, if his eyes did not deceive him, were evidences of mortar dislodged by nefarious toes.

It was not possible to deceive himself an instant longer, for the naked truth lay staring into his eyes.

O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.

Only I fear they will not profit us much; for if my eyes deceive me not, both are already captured.

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On this page you'll find 159 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deceive, such as: be dishonest, betray, cheat, circumvent, defraud, and delude.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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