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  • "Looks are deceiving," Mrs. Peterson replies.   (source)
    deceiving = misleading
  • I felt that I could not deceive you to that extent.   (source)
    deceive = lie to or mislead
  • You have been shamefully deceived by the Mason family.   (source)
    deceived = lied to or misled
  • "Sunsets are never simple.
    Twilight is refracted and reflected
    But never true.
    Eventide is a disguise
    Covering tracks,
    Covering lies.
    "We don't care
    That dusk deceives.
    We see brilliant colors,
    And never learn
    The sun has dropped
    Beneath the earth
    By the time we see the burn.
    "Sunsets are in disguise,
    Covering truths, covering lies.
    "A.H."†   (source)
  • "She cites — it's right here — First Kings, chapter twenty-two — the passage in which God deceives King Ahab.†   (source)
  • "You're deceiving the princeps!" said a furious military consul.†   (source)
  • The child I carried would be called demigod, but that word was deceiving.†   (source)
  • How dare you deceive us like that!†   (source)
  • I felt deceived.†   (source)
  • How could he—she—deceive me all these years?†   (source)
  • I was deceived.†   (source)
  • Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.†   (source)
  • Curtain is the big deceiver, remember?†   (source)
  • Let me not deceive you.†   (source)
  • The government of Costa Rica felt it had been misled and deceived by John Hammond and his plans for the island.†   (source)
  • I reached for my jeans, saying, "Well, of course I shouldn't deceive him.†   (source)
  • Nehemia had every reason to deceive them, to plot against them.†   (source)
  • And at another memorable moment, commenting on her son-in-law's affair with her daughter's " 'greatest friend,' " she rationalized: " 'If John is going to deceive Constance, it's nice it should be somebody we all know.'†   (source)
  • Phineas was a poor deceiver, having had no practice.†   (source)
  • It was only after Mao's death that I knew I was deceived."†   (source)
  • He's deceived us for years.†   (source)
  • With the help of your Red brethren, you deceived us with technological tricks and ruses, infiltrating my own family.†   (source)
  • It may not look like it, but appearances can be deceiving.†   (source)
  • She had vowed she would never deceive her uncle again!†   (source)
  • But he felt none of the tenderness that he had felt for his father, only the anger, the humiliation of having been deceived.†   (source)
  • Furious, she threw the tray on the floor and ordered Chencha out of the house, for having tried to deceive her.†   (source)
  • "Ser Jorah would not dare deceive me," Varys said with a sly smile.†   (source)
  • So this was the effect of the Lunar glamour, the spell to enchant, to deceive, to turn one's heart toward you and against your enemies.†   (source)
  • Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed.†   (source)
  • They are all deceiving you.†   (source)
  • So in 1984, Moore sued Golde and UCLA for deceiving him and using his body in research without consent; he also claimed property rights over his tissues and sued Golde for stealing them.†   (source)
  • Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.†   (source)
  • Part of me wants to scream and yell and hit him for deceiving me.†   (source)
  • How could she be worth deceiving and killing?†   (source)
  • "Do not be deceived by looks," said Gyuri to me quietly.†   (source)
  • It must be excruciating, but I lost all my sympathy for Haymitch when I realized how he had deceived us.†   (source)
  • Will you let yourself be deceived?†   (source)
  • A pity to deceive them.†   (source)
  • We won't be able to deceive Jeod.†   (source)
  • Anything which deceives is evil, I believe.†   (source)
  • I felt so guilty for deceiving him that I almost took Edward's advice and told him where I would be.†   (source)
  • Film occasionally deceived: maybe he wasn't as big as he looked.†   (source)
  • Distances are very deceiving out on the ice however and we still probably have thirty or so miles to go.†   (source)
  • Ulrich is not I hope intentionally dishonest but he is perverse to the point of deceiving & misleading us & cannot be depended on.†   (source)
  • Their choice of illness is quite telling: each of them elects to employ a fragile heart as a device to deceive the respective spouse, to be able to construct an elaborate personal fiction based on heart disease, to announce to the world that he or she suffers from a "bad heart."†   (source)
  • Twice soldiers had been to the nursing home, and although he had managed to deceive them about most of the Jews still in residence there, one sick blind old woman had been taken away.†   (source)
  • The appearance is deceiving.†   (source)
  • Had they been deceived into doing what they did?†   (source)
  • I said: "It wasn't my intention to deceive anyone, sir.†   (source)
  • Any moment now the German would beat me for deceiving him.†   (source)
  • They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about.†   (source)
  • By my eye I was deceived, never again….†   (source)
  • It's almost harder to see Nathaniel on the good days than the bad, because you let yourself be deceived into thinking he's going to stay that way.†   (source)
  • She loved him so much that instead of deceiving him she preferred to continue loving him, although she had to let him know in a brutal manner.†   (source)
  • Let us never deceive ourselves, Nefud.†   (source)
  • And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.†   (source)
  • You have deceived yourself, too.†   (source)
  • Maybe they are deceiving us.†   (source)
  • Neither did they have respect for women, who, although not their colleagues, so to speak, nevertheless deceived their husbands—regularly or irregularly, it made no difference.†   (source)
  • This hotel-the Amazon-was for women only, and they were mostly girls my age with wealthy parents who wanted to be sure their daughters would be living where men couldn't get at them and deceive them; and they were all going to posh secretarial schools like Katy Gibbs, where they had to wear hats and stockings and gloves to class, or they had just graduated from places like Katy Gibbs and were secretaries to executives and junior executives and simply hanging around in New York waiting…†   (source)
  • It was all very normal at first, and Saeed wondered if she was perhaps teasing him, or if she had been deceived and sold a dud batch.†   (source)
  • "I've often heard of dishonest girls who arrange mizuage for the time of month when a man will be easily deceived.†   (source)
  • She was deceived.†   (source)
  • The inherent dangerousness of the enterprise appealed to her far more than the game itself; she was not good enough at arithmetic to care whether she won or lost, there was no real joy in trying to beat the law of averages, but she derived some pleasure from deceiving Miss Blunt.†   (source)
  • Momma was staring at her with wide my-ears-are-deceiving-me eyes.†   (source)
  • Aren't you ashamed of yourself for deceiving the Soviet Power?†   (source)
  • Just like him, I'm a deceiver.†   (source)
  • One deceived salesman said, "He [Hickock] did the work.†   (source)
  • Was I deceiving myself into believing that I ever could or would escape with Mahtob?†   (source)
  • They are going to kill you because you have deceived them.†   (source)
  • It won't be easy, for she is hard to deceive, but you must try."†   (source)
  • When You were deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise.†   (source)
  • Deceiver!†   (source)
  • I'm not deceiving you."†   (source)
  • "Most children," they wrote, will deceive in certain situations and not in others.†   (source)
  • One is actively deceiving.†   (source)
  • She couldn't believe, after deceiving her own mother and grandmother for two entire weeks, that she was admitting to a complete stranger on the street that her marriage had failed.†   (source)
  • But they cannot deceive on their own.†   (source)
  • I even checked to be sure that the keyhole I felt with my fingertips was a real one, not a blind hole drilled there to deceive me.†   (source)
  • You always were a deceiving man.†   (source)
  • It was still winter but there was something soft in the air today, that rhythmic fiction of early spring, so sweet to be deceived by, and Albert took his usual route into the shopping streets, poking into stores and social clubs.†   (source)
  • How is it that you have deceived me?†   (source)
  • Now I was more worried than ever that people weren't going to understand why I did this, or that they were going to be angry to have been deceived, regardless of the intent.†   (source)
  • Well, looks can be deceiving.†   (source)
  • On closer inspection, though, he sensed that first impressions were deceiving.†   (source)
  • So Saruman guessed, and he had concealed his mind and deceived his messenger.†   (source)
  • I deceived you about Kathy.†   (source)
  • For —a moment I thought my eyes deceived me.†   (source)
  • Or be deceived by those sharp characters who know how to turn this kind of situation into personal profit, something that's already happening.†   (source)
  • 'You're antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded, humiliated or deceived.†   (source)
  • You—and everyone in this family—deceived me.†   (source)
  • I must not deceive . myself too much He leaned over the side and pulled loose a piece of the meat of the fish where the " shark had cut him.†   (source)
  • "I couldn't deceive him again."†   (source)
  • They seemed far away, but sound traveled strangely in deep woods, and distances could be deceiving.†   (source)
  • All of her flaws were hidden behind that pretty face, and her smile could deceive people into believing she was perfect.†   (source)
  • We were deceived!†   (source)
  • A downy growth of moss served to deceive the eye; anything heavier than a pebble would sink.†   (source)
  • The trees seemed to lift away as a ridge rose above them, and Clary blinked when they turned the corner of a high hill—unless her eyes were deceiving her, there were houses down there.†   (source)
  • They have deceived you.†   (source)
  • Appearances can be deceiving.†   (source)
  • He had felt quite sure that the Dwarfs would rally to his side the moment he showed them how they had been deceived.†   (source)
  • I am not deceived or a martyr.†   (source)
  • You intended to deceive me.†   (source)
  • I promise I won't try to run away, I won't tell you any lies, and I won't try to deceive you.†   (source)
  • But he had been misled, deceived.†   (source)
  • Appearances, Eve thought, were deceiving more often than not.†   (source)
  • No, you deceive yourself too easily.†   (source)
  • What we shall do this afternoon is to show that your witness is a false witness, and that you as prosecutor have been deceived into accepting these false testimonies.†   (source)
  • There were some few others, also, but if they had been deceived out of their coppers by the so-called ghost, not all were of a mind to admit to it.†   (source)
  • Had Patsy really deceived me or had I signed for a credit card long ago that I had forgotten about?†   (source)
  • Fittich wasn't deceived.†   (source)
  • She trembled violently as the creeping laughter tried to deceive her into parting her lips.†   (source)
  • I had seen her find her weapons and become skilled with them, watched her construct a character so thoroughly and wear it so constantly that for spells she almost deceived herself.†   (source)
  • You were deceived.†   (source)
  • He allowed a mortal to deceive and weaken him before his nobles.†   (source)
  • But looks are deceiving.†   (source)
  • If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it.†   (source)
  • Looks could be deceiving.†   (source)
  • I don't think he'll deceive you about their intentions.†   (source)
  • I deceived you, and it has been sometimes difficult to sleep since we spoke in my office.†   (source)
  • The driver we have has deceived us.†   (source)
  • So could it be that the honorable John Kwang is deceiving you, Parky, and not just the other way?†   (source)
  • She felt that she was a slave only because Old Rit had been tricked and deceived, years ago.†   (source)
  • For he sees something else here: that her outer life is deceiving; that she gives the appearance of orderliness, of a cash-register practicality about herself; but inside, what he has glimpsed is not order, but chaos; not practicality at all, but stubborn, incredible impulse.†   (source)
  • Bright torches line the driveway, leading up to what appears to be—if my eyes are not deceiving me—the same house Mr. Darcy lived in in the A&E version ofPride and Prejudice .†   (source)
  • But the electors and legislators will not be deceived.†   (source)
  • They had deceived him.†   (source)
  • I'd told him that he'd begun to feel like home and, at that moment, I knew I was deceiving myself if I was trying to convince myself that by leaving The Shade, I'd be going back home.†   (source)
  • "There's no need to deceive us," he said at length.†   (source)
  • "And after that," he continued, "do not be deceived by others."†   (source)
  • Every day in the pitiless hospital light she saw how patients deceived themselves — about their weight, their drinking, their shortness of breath — only to find herself now, in her estimation, worse than any of them.†   (source)
  • Do not be deceived by false obligation.†   (source)
  • But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.†   (source)
  • I will not deceive you.†   (source)
  • It was probably Sophie's most flagrant evasion (and one incorporating her strangest lie) that earlier she kept harping to me about the extraordinary liberality and tolerance of her upbringing, not only deceiving me, just as I'm sure she deceived Nathan, but concealing from me until the last possible moment a truth which, in order to justify her dealings with the Commandant, she could hide no longer: that the pamphlet had been written by her father, Professor Zbigniew Bieganski,…†   (source)
  • Now it seemed to her that Uncle Harold had been deceiving her, for compared to Audrey, she thought, she was not beautiful, nor even pretty.†   (source)
  • The great deceiver has no heart.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes for a quick test and found that I was indeed climbing, only my eyes were deceived.†   (source)
  • We find comfort, we find numbness, we learn feats, to deceive others.†   (source)
  • No, Lady, do not deceive yourself.†   (source)
  • This foolish-acting did not deceive Mrs. Shortley any.†   (source)
  • And suddenly, with the terrible clarity of a man too long deceived, Leamas understood the whole ghastly tuck.†   (source)
  • Blessed are the deceived.†   (source)
  • I think it's just a perfect shame, deceiving a little child like that who's been brought up to trust people, and laughing right in his face!†   (source)
  • On the table there were highball and old-fashioned glasses For a moment he was deceived, and went quickly closer.†   (source)
  • Because I have deceived you and cannot deny all she proclaims, you may believe the more.†   (source)
  • You couldn't deceive her, even if you were mean enough to want to.†   (source)
  • For democracy means much more than popular government and majority rule, much more than a system of political techniques to flatter or deceive powerful blocs of voters.†   (source)
  • He had prostrated himself to appear dead, and deceived bears.†   (source)
  • MORE Don't deceive yourself, my lord, we've had a quarrel since the day we met, our friendship was but sloth.†   (source)
  • She used to ask Dick with an apparent casualness that did not deceive him, about other farmers' crops, listening with bright-eyed anticipation to his laconic accounts of how this one had made ten thousand pounds in a good season, and that one cleared off all his debts.†   (source)
  • His Holiness was the most nefarious deceiver the church had ever seen.†   (source)
  • How many more times would Zalmai have to be deceived?†   (source)
  • "What?" said George, in an innocent tone that deceived nobody.†   (source)
  • Appearances can be deceiving, Professor.†   (source)
  • "Two years for Kronos to deceive you," Athena said.†   (source)
  • They're wolvogs they're bred to deceive.†   (source)
  • Am I really evaluating how best to deceive my friend?†   (source)
  • Their youth is touching, but I know I can't be deceived by it.†   (source)
  • I was actually relieved to know that Aech hadn't been deceiving me, at least not on that account.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Kit wished, with all her heart, that she had never deceived this man.†   (source)
  • It was this that had deceived Eragon into thinking the sky white.†   (source)
  • This is because your minds, so unwilling to be deceived, are avoiding exposure to the messages.†   (source)
  • "But you deceived me and I'm frightened.†   (source)
  • Don't let the appearance of these people deceive you," he said.†   (source)
  • Kronos was deceived, and the rescued baby, Zeus, was taken to Mount Dicte to be raised in secret.†   (source)
  • Opposing teams who came to Candlestick Park were deceived by the sunshine.†   (source)
  • And we have been lied to; public opinion is constantly deceived.†   (source)
  • There shouldn't be any problem deceiving Julius, but the centaur, he was a smart one.†   (source)
  • It just goes to show you how white folks can be deceived by their own deception.†   (source)
  • He didn't expect to get a job right away, and in this he was not deceived.†   (source)
  • I have until this moment not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may be deceiving me.†   (source)
  • I've only come to protect you from these liars who would deceive you.†   (source)
  • They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings.†   (source)
  • And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.†   (source)
  • Not intentionally, perhaps, but deceived nonetheless, and so bitterly that it almost choked me.†   (source)
  • We have created machines that can sometimes deceive us into believing that they are intelligent.†   (source)
  • She repeated that it made her unhappy to deceive the world.†   (source)
  • Every time I've tried, she's deceived me, or it's come back to bite me later.†   (source)
  • Father, if it takes my lifetime, I will find the one who deceived us, and I will kill him.†   (source)
  • "I care nothing for your intentions, E'lir Kvothe, deceived or otherwise.†   (source)
  • "The cat goddess deceives you," the magician said.†   (source)
  • "Deceiving me," said Fujiko in Japanese, "is only half of it, daughter.†   (source)
  • No one could be deceived that easily about Galbatorix and the Urgals.†   (source)
  • FRANCIS: Excellency, I never thought to say it to such a weighty judge, but you are deceived.†   (source)
  • Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.†   (source)
  • What, do you think because you surround yourself with cats and pigs, you are deceiving anyone?†   (source)
  • Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there.†   (source)
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