Sample Sentences for
deemed
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    He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.  (source)
    deemed = believed
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    Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of Atticus's questions: from questions that Mr. Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury a picture of the Ewells' home life.  (source)
    deem = believe
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    I feared not the shadows of Men, powerless and frail as I deemed them.  (source)
    deemed = believed
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    I deemed this knowledge of the utmost importance.  (source)
    deemed = believed
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    She wore high heels and a peach sleeveless dress, but I didn't deem it my place to advise her otherwise.†  (source)
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    But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.  (source)
    deeming = believing
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    Of course, the court was forced into that decision by five idiot, bigmouthed women, so this reporter deems that ruling null and void.†  (source)
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    In the high house beheld he a many of warriors, A host of men sib all sleeping together, Of man-warriors a heap; then laugh'd out his mood; 730 In mind deem'd he to sunder, or ever came day, The monster, the fell one, from each of the men there The life from the body; for befell him a boding Of fulfilment of feeding: but weird now it was not That he any more of mankind thenceforward Should eat, that night over.†  (source)
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    said the dwarf; yonder is a knight at the cross, let us put it both upon him, and as he deemeth so shall it be.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She deemeth" in older English, today we say "She deems."
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    For he who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonour foul; supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation: Thou thyself with scorn And anger wouldst resent the offered wrong, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then, If such affront I labour to avert From thee alone, which on us both at once The enemy, though bold, will hardly dare; Or daring, first on me the assault shall light.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misdeem means wrong and reverses the meaning of deem. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
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    Beware, I pray you, for, by heaven's king, Full many a man weeneth to see a thing, And it is all another than it seemeth; He which that misconceiveth oft misdeemeth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She misdeemeth" in older English, today we say "She misdeems", or more likely "wrongly believes."
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    Once the bikes were deemed secure, supplies were untied and divvied up.  (source)
    deemed = believed or judged
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    First, it went only from one side of our yard to the other: what our mother could see and deem safe if she stood in the middle.†  (source)
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