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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
  • The government of Costa Rica felt it had been misled and deceived by John Hammond and his plans for the island.†   (source)
    deceived = lied or misled
  • Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa ... who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.   (source)
    deceived = tricked
  • "We don't care
    That dusk deceives.†   (source)
  • But over the past few months, I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist.†   (source)
  • Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.†   (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)
  • How dare you deceive us like that!†   (source)
  • Not intentionally, perhaps, but deceived nonetheless, and so bitterly that it almost choked me.†   (source)
  • Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.†   (source)
  • How was I to imagine the Grand Master would go to such ends to deceive me and bequeath the keystone to an estranged granddaughter?†   (source)
  • Let me not deceive you.†   (source)
  • She confessed to experiencing a moral anguish over meeting him so secretly and deceiving her mother and father.†   (source)
  • I reached for my jeans, saying, "Well, of course I shouldn't deceive him.†   (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)
  • "I promise," she said, "if I get into any sort of trouble, I will swear to my last breath that you were deceived by me, and had no knowledge of anything."†   (source)
  • But I also look at his hands in disgust, thinking about all the intimate ways he's touched me and held me, knowing all along that he was deceiving me.†   (source)
  • "Ser Jorah would not dare deceive me," Varys said with a sly smile.†   (source)
  • What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.†   (source)
  • With the help of your Red brethren, you deceived us with technological tricks and ruses, infiltrating my own family.†   (source)
  • Mr. Curtain is the big deceiver, remember?†   (source)
  • How could she be worth deceiving and killing?†   (source)
  • He's deceived us for years.†   (source)
  • Furious, she threw the tray on the floor and ordered Chencha out of the house, for having tried to deceive her.†   (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)
  • She felt completely justified in deceiving her aunt and uncle; they were narrow-minded and mistaken.†   (source)
  • It was only after Mao's death that I knew I was deceived.†   (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)
  • Had they been deceived into doing what they did?†   (source)
  • They are all deceiving you.†   (source)
  • There shouldn't be any problem deceiving Julius, but the centaur, he was a smart one.†   (source)
  • "Hobie—" afire with shame; I'd always worked so hard to screen my double-dealing self from him, to show him only the improved-andpolished version, never the shameful threadbare self I was so desperate to hide, deceiver and coward, liar and cheat — "Why did you come back?"†   (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)
  • In addition you must swear that you have not deceived me in some manner and that you intend no harm to the elves, dwarves, Varden, or the race of dragons.†   (source)
  • They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about.†   (source)
  • Anything which deceives is evil, I believe.†   (source)
  • By my eye I was deceived, never again....†   (source)
  • I've often heard of dishonest girls who arrange mizuage for the time of month when a man will be easily deceived.†   (source)
  • Any moment now the German would beat me for deceiving him.†   (source)
  • I felt so guilty for deceiving him that I almost took Edward's advice and told him where I would be.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • How had I not realized I couldn't possibly deceive Anaander Mianaai for more than the smallest instant?†   (source)
  • Ulrich is not I hope intentionally dishonest but he is perverse to the point of deceiving & misleading us & cannot be depended on.†   (source)
  • Distances are very deceiving out on the ice however and we still probably have thirty or so miles to go.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Maybe they are deceiving us.†   (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)
  • But I knew I might deceive him if I used all my skill, and, bending close to him now, I whispered the word, 'Father.'†   (source)
  • Momma was staring at her with wide my-ears-are-deceiving-me eyes.†   (source)
  • Film occasionally deceived: maybe he wasn't as big as he looked.†   (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)
  • But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that this is a mistake, that when we think only in terms of inherent traits and forget the role of situations, we're deceiving ourselves about the real causes of human behavior.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 to get married to some career man or other.†   (source)
  • Let us never deceive ourselves, Nefud.†   (source)
  • Just like him, I'm a deceiver.†   (source)
  • For more than four hundred years Indians were deceived, corralled, forced onto small pieces of land and discriminated against, called dirty Indians, injuns, redskins, savages.†   (source)
  • It is, of course, generally accepted today that Herr Ribbentrop was a trickster: that it was Hitler's plan throughout those years to deceive England for as long as possible concerning his true intentions, and that Herr Ribbentrop's sole mission in our country was to orchestrate this deception.†   (source)
  • Aren't you ashamed of yourself for deceiving the Soviet Power?†   (source)
  • Because, as you know, first impressions can be deceiving.†   (source)
  • The doctor felt deceived, met with Wilson, accused him of being a liar, refused to provide him with any more treatment, and told him to get back to work.†   (source)
  • A downy growth of moss served to deceive the eye; anything heavier than a pebble would sink.†   (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)
  • When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise.†   (source)
  • She trembled violently as the creeping laughter tried to deceive her into parting her lips.†   (source)
  • One deceived salesman said, "He [Hickock] did the work†   (source)
  • It won't be easy, for she is hard to deceive, but you must try.†   (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)
  • You always were a deceiving man.†   (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)
  • There must be no more misconceptions about the true intent of those deceiving the unhappy people of America.†   (source)
  • She continued: Now that you've plucked up the courage to tell me you've been deceiving me for nine months, do you think you can tell me who she is?†   (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)
  • He had felt quite sure that the Dwarfs would rally to his side the moment he showed them how they had been deceived.†   (source)
  • Therefore he couldn't pretend that he wasn't crippled, nor could he deceive himself that people were not repelled by his defect.†   (source)
  • One is actively deceiving.†   (source)
  • They would surely punish me if I did not, but if I had deceived Grandfather once, I would not deceive him again.†   (source)
  • But they cannot deceive on their own.†   (source)
  • 'I'm a university professor with a highly developed sense of right and wrong, and I wouldn't try to deceive you.†   (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 then, all I had to do was witness her trying to swing her legs over the bed to go to the bathroom, see how winded she became, to know that looks could be deceiving.†   (source)
  • Was I deceiving myself into believing that I ever could or would escape with Mahtob?†   (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)
  • "I'm afraid, dear lady, dear mademoiselle," he says, drawing out the word, "that you have been deceived.†   (source)
  • For as you sought to deceive me, you have been yourselves deceived.... And turning, the Demon stared at his false officiate.†   (source)
  • I deceived you about Kathy.†   (source)
  • But looks are deceiving: privately she aches, compulsively chain-smoking Newport cigarettes and biting her fingernails to the quick.†   (source)
  • "But if I am not deceived," said I, "things are now moving which will require the union of all our strength."†   (source)
  • All of her flaws were hidden behind that pretty face, and her smile could deceive people into believing she was perfect.†   (source)
  • Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he's ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he's deceiving?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I must not deceive myself too much.†   (source)
  • It was one of the old buildings, close to two hundred years old, built of actual stone, if her eyes didn't deceive her.†   (source)
  • You must surely know that the myths you speak of are designed to deceive the people of the colored forest-to control their allegiance.†   (source)
  • I vow to you by blood and by bone that I do not deceive you in this.†   (source)
  • They seemed far away, but sound traveled strangely in deep woods, and distances could be deceiving.†   (source)
  • He also was pretty sure that Montes had been deceiving them and that they were not on course for Africa.†   (source)
  • They are going to kill you because you have deceived them.†   (source)
  • Being deceived by a woman was perhaps the only thing that still had the power to bring him to this degree of rage.†   (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)
  • Had Patsy really deceived me or had I signed for a credit card long ago that I had forgotten about?†   (source)
  • A mystic is driven by the urge to impress, to cheat, to flatter, to deceive, to force that omnipotent consciousness of others.†   (source)
  • I try to tell myself that I've been fooled, I've been deceived, I've been hypnotized, I've been ..."Davie?" says Mam.†   (source)
  • You—and everyone in this family—deceived me.†   (source)
  • And let me tell you, women— I like this farewell that the world designed, Unless my eyes deceive me, unless We are already parted, the world and I, And all that breeds desire is lodged Among our tireless ancestors.†   (source)
  • Do not be deceived by false obligation.†   (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)
  • I would not even attempt to deceive one of its kind!†   (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)
  • I am not deceived or a martyr.†   (source)
  • But her eyes were not gray like Nina's eyes, and no matter how hard Joe tried to see Nina's face before him, he could not deceive himself into believing that this was his daughter.†   (source)
  • Well, looks can be deceiving.†   (source)
  • So could it be that the honorable John Kwang is deceiving you, Parky, and not just the other way?†   (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)
  • "And after that," he continued, "do not be deceived by others."†   (source)
  • But the electors and legislators will not be deceived.†   (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)
  • Because I have deceived you and cannot deny all she proclaims, you may believe the more.†   (source)
  • The reports of his death had been part of an elaborate operation to deceive his enemies in Moscow and Tehran.†   (source)
  • But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.†   (source)
  • I deceived you, and it has been sometimes difficult to sleep since we spoke in my office.†   (source)
  • She felt that she was a slave only because Old Rit had been tricked and deceived, years ago.†   (source)
  • On the table there were highball and old-fashioned glasses For a moment he was deceived, and went quickly closer.†   (source)
  • And suddenly, with the terrible clarity of a man too long deceived, Leamas understood the whole ghastly tuck.†   (source)
  • No, Lady, do not deceive yourself.†   (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, Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow; Doctor of Law honoris causa, Universities of Karlova, Bucharest, Heidelberg and Leipzig.†   (source)
  • Miss Editha Woodworth sat propped up, motionless, under a huge lugubrious oil painting of—if Clumly's eyes did not deceive him—broken columns on a hillside, or possibly horses.†   (source)
  • He had simply taken it for granted: the whole thing had been a piece of psychological trickery, and he had been completely deceived.†   (source)
  • MORE Don't deceive yourself, my lord, we've had a quarrel since the day we met, our friendship was but sloth.†   (source)
  • But I was not able to overcome it, could only deceive it, could only flee from it, only hide from it.†   (source)
  • Not that I care if they themselves broke the rules and deceived other people or if they lived according to their conscience-it's not they that I'm concerned with, but with the actual content of these passages.†   (source)
  • You couldn't deceive her, even if you were mean enough to want to.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes for a quick test and found that I was indeed climbing, only my eyes were 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)
  • This foolish-acting did not deceive Mrs. Shortley any.†   (source)
  • He had prostrated himself to appear dead, and deceived bears.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Their youth is touching, but I know I can't be deceived by it.†   (source)
  • Appearances can be deceiving, Professor.†   (source)
  • How many more times would Zalmai have to be deceived?†   (source)
  • "What?" said George, in an innocent tone that deceived nobody.†   (source)
  • "Two years for Kronos to deceive you," Athena said.†   (source)
  • I've only come to protect you from these liars who would deceive you.†   (source)
  • A jealous rival who undermines her, deceiving the putative patron as to her true, noble nature.†   (source)
  • I have until this moment not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may be deceiving me.†   (source)
  • Part of me wants to scream and yell and hit him for deceiving me.†   (source)
  • And we have been lied to; public opinion is constantly deceived.†   (source)
  • She repeated that it made her unhappy to deceive the world.†   (source)
  • Nehemia had every reason to deceive them, to plot against them.†   (source)
  • How could he—she—deceive me all these years?†   (source)
  • His Holiness was the most nefarious deceiver the church had ever seen.†   (source)
  • Don't let the appearance of these people deceive you," he said.†   (source)
  • "Do not be deceived by looks," said Gyuri to me quietly.†   (source)
  • They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings.†   (source)
  • Opposing teams who came to Candlestick Park were deceived by the sunshine.†   (source)
  • Phineas was a poor deceiver, having had no practice.†   (source)
  • She had vowed she would never deceive her uncle again!†   (source)
  • "Most children," they wrote, will deceive in certain situations and not in others.†   (source)
  • And as I turned saying, Louis, you deceive yourself, and started up, they started up.†   (source)
  • This is because your minds, so unwilling to be deceived, are avoiding exposure to the messages.†   (source)
  • Am I really evaluating how best to deceive my friend?†   (source)
  • Every time I've tried, she's deceived me, or it's come back to bite me later.†   (source)
  • You were already on edge, which made it that much easier to deceive you.†   (source)
  • It was this that had deceived Eragon into thinking the sky white.†   (source)
  • We have created machines that can sometimes deceive us into believing that they are intelligent.†   (source)
  • They're wolvogs they're bred to deceive.†   (source)
  • And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.†   (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)
  • And I hold you to the honor of your hall and clan that this isn't a ploy to deceive us.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Kit wished, with all her heart, that she had never deceived this man.†   (source)
  • I was actually relieved to know that Aech hadn't been deceiving me, at least not on that account.†   (source)
  • FRANCIS: Excellency, I never thought to say it to such a weighty judge, but you are deceived.†   (source)
  • No one could be deceived that easily about Galbatorix and the Urgals.†   (source)
  • I've deceived you and I've always known it.†   (source)
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