All 10 Uses of
deceive
in
Great Expectations
- Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing of beast upon the marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly,— "You're not a deceiving imp?†
Chpt 3deceiving = lying or misleading
- He had asked me if I was a deceiving imp, and he had said I should be a fierce young hound if I joined the hunt against him.†
Chpt 5
- "Well," said Joe, with the same appearance of profound cogitation, "he is not—no, not to deceive you, he is not—my nevvy."†
Chpt 10deceive = lie or mislead
- And unless I deceive myself on a point where my interests or prepossessions are certainly not concerned, I saw that Mr. and Mrs. Pocket's children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.†
Chpt 22
- —It is of no use," said Biddy, laying her hand upon my arm, as I was for running out, "you know I would not deceive you; he was not there a minute, and he is gone."†
Chpt 35
- "Do you want me then," said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, "to deceive and entrap you?"†
Chpt 38
- Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?†
Chpt 38
- I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments.†
Chpt 55 *
- In short, I shouldn't greatly deceive you," Joe added, after a little grave reflection, "if I represented to you that the word of that young woman were, 'without a minute's loss of time.'†
Chpt 57
- Here is Squires of the Boar present, known and respected in this town, and here is William, which his father's name was Potkins if I do not deceive myself.†
Chpt 58
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality