All 6 Uses of
deceive
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Let it deceive them, then, a little longer; it cannot deceive them too much.†
Chpt 2.15deceive = lie or mislead
- Let it deceive them, then, a little longer; it cannot deceive them too much.†
Chpt 2.15
- "You deceive yourself, monsieur," returned the keeper of the wine-shop.†
Chpt 2.16
- Checking the postmaster, who was for turning his horse's head to the yard (the drunken patriot sat composedly in his saddle looking on, with the line round his wrist), Darnay said, as soon as he could make his voice heard: "Friends, you deceive yourselves, or you are deceived.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- Checking the postmaster, who was for turning his horse's head to the yard (the drunken patriot sat composedly in his saddle looking on, with the line round his wrist), Darnay said, as soon as he could make his voice heard: "Friends, you deceive yourselves, or you are deceived.†
Chpt 3.1deceived = lied or misled
- Have these men deceived us, and taken us back by another road?†
Chpt 3.13
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality