All 38 Uses of
deceive
in
The Idiot
- I assure you I am not deceiving you; you shall not have to answer for me.†
Chpt 1.2deceiving = lying or misleading
- How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly?†
Chpt 1.6deceive = lie or mislead
- She looks on me as a fool because I show that I meant her money, and doesn't realize that there are other men who would deceive her in far worse fashion.†
Chpt 1.11
- If I reckoned on that I should certainly be deceived, for I am still too weak in mind and character.†
Chpt 1.11 *deceived = lied or misled
- I have been cruelly deceived.†
Chpt 1.12
- What matter that Rogojin came bargaining here, and that Gavrila Ardalionovitch would have deceived you if he could?†
Chpt 1.16
- Do you think I am deceived as to the flagrant impropriety of my conduct?†
Chpt 2.2
- just ask him about his dealings with others, how he deceives people!†
Chpt 2.2deceives = lies or misleads
- She asked me what I should do if I found she had deceived me.†
Chpt 2.3deceived = lied or misled
- "Do you think I am deceiving you?" asked the prince.†
Chpt 2.3deceiving = lying or misleading
- That it was a jest there was no doubt whatever; he knew that well enough, and had good reason, too, for his conviction; for during her recitation of the ballad Aglaya had deliberately changed the letters A. N. B. into N. P. B. He was quite sure she had not done this by accident, and that his ears had not deceived him.†
Chpt 2.7deceived = lied or misled
- It is clear that he has been deceived, or he would never have agreed to anything so vile as the scandalous revelations about his mother in Mr. Keller's article.†
Chpt 2.8
- He is an innocent man, deceived by everyone!†
Chpt 2.8
- He has deceived poor Mr. Burdovsky, and all of you, gentlemen, who have come forward so nobly to support your friend—(he evidently needs support, I quite see that!)†
Chpt 2.8
- Since Mr. Burdovsky is not Pavlicheff's son, his claim is neither more nor less than attempted fraud (supposing, of course, that he had known the truth), but the fact is that he has been deceived.†
Chpt 2.8
- That is what gave a rogue the opportunity of deceiving him; he really did think himself Pavlicheff's son.†
Chpt 2.8deceiving = lying or misleading
- "If that is true," said he, "I have been deceived, grossly deceived, but not by Tchebaroff: and for a long time past, a long time.†
Chpt 2.9deceived = lied or misled
- "If that is true," said he, "I have been deceived, grossly deceived, but not by Tchebaroff: and for a long time past, a long time.†
Chpt 2.9
- I was deceived ....I said you were...afflicted...like me... But you are not like me...you give lessons...you support your mother.†
Chpt 2.9
- I think we may say without fear of deceiving ourselves, that you have now given a fairly exact account of your life.†
Chpt 2.11deceiving = lying or misleading
- Anyone can deceive you and take you in like a—like a,—aren't you ashamed to trust him?†
Chpt 2.12deceive = lie or mislead
- "I know very well that he does deceive me occasionally, and he knows that I know it, but—" The prince did not finish his sentence.†
Chpt 2.12
- Everybody takes you in and deceives you; you went to town yesterday.†
Chpt 2.12deceives = lies or misleads
- Of course I believe every word you say, and I know perfectly well that you neither did or ever can deceive me in any way, and yet, I don't love you.†
Chpt 3.3deceive = lie or mislead
- "I don't want you to suspect that I have simply come here to deceive you and pump information out of you!" said Evgenie, still smiling, and without making any direct reply to the question.†
Chpt 3.4
- "Oh, but I haven't the slightest doubt that you did come to pump me," said the prince, laughing himself, at last; "and I dare say you are quite prepared to deceive me too, so far as that goes.†
Chpt 3.4
- I WILL not deceive you.†
Chpt 3.6
- You know he deceived us last night, the cunning rascal.†
Chpt 3.9deceived = lied or misled
- You remember how you escaped them by some ingenious stratagem; then you doubted if they were really deceived, or whether they were only pretending not to know your hiding-place; then you thought of another plan and hoodwinked them once again.†
Chpt 3.10
- But he won't write anonymous letters to the old lady; that would be too audacious a thing for him to attempt; but I dare swear the very first thing he did was to show me up to Aglaya as a base deceiver and intriguer.†
Chpt 4.1deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
- Why, by the very fact that he put the purse prominently before you, first under the chair and then in your lining, he shows that he does not wish to deceive you, but is anxious to beg your forgiveness in this artless way.†
Chpt 4.3deceive = lie or mislead
- Prince, I have often given away my heart, and am nearly always deceived.†
Chpt 4.4deceived = lied or misled
- Don't deceive me now, prince—tell the truth.†
Chpt 4.5deceive = lie or mislead
- However, I won't deceive you; I asked for the appointment.†
Chpt 4.8
- I guessed that anyone who liked could deceive him, and that he would immediately forgive anyone who did deceive him; and it was for this that I grew to love him—" Aglaya paused for a moment, as though suddenly brought up in astonishment that she could have said these words, but at the same time a great pride shone in her eyes, like a defiant assertion that it would not matter to her if "this woman" laughed in her face for the admission just made.†
Chpt 4.8
- I guessed that anyone who liked could deceive him, and that he would immediately forgive anyone who did deceive him; and it was for this that I grew to love him—" Aglaya paused for a moment, as though suddenly brought up in astonishment that she could have said these words, but at the same time a great pride shone in her eyes, like a defiant assertion that it would not matter to her if "this woman" laughed in her face for the admission just made.†
Chpt 4.8
- But like the Frenchman of whom the story is told that he studied for holy orders, took all the oaths, was ordained priest, and next morning wrote to his bishop informing him that, as he did not believe in God and considered it wrong to deceive the people and live upon their pockets, he begged to surrender the orders conferred upon him the day before, and to inform his lordship that he was sending this letter to the public press,—like this Frenchman, the prince played a false game.†
Chpt 4.9
- And did you not deceive that beautiful girl when you assured her of your love?†
Chpt 4.9
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality