All 8 Uses of
deceive
in
Middlemarch
- She had never been deceived as to the object of the baronet's interest.†
Chpt 1deceived = lied or misled
- They are not always too grossly deceived; for Sinbad himself may have fallen by good-luck on a true description, and wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.†
Chpt 1
- The mother's eyes are not always deceived in their partiality: she at least can best judge who is the tender, filial-hearted child.†
Chpt 2 *
- He was a large-cheeked man, nearly seventy, with small furtive eyes, and was not only of much blander temper but thought himself much deeper than his brother Peter; indeed not likely to be deceived in any of his fellow-men, inasmuch as they could not well be more greedy and deceitful than he suspected them of being.†
Chpt 3
- He'll turn out well yet, though that wicked man has deceived him.†
Chpt 4
- This was not what Mr. Bulstrode said to any man for the sake of deceiving him: it was what he said to himself—it was as genuinely his mode of explaining events as any theory of yours may be, if you happen to disagree with him.†
Chpt 5deceiving = lying or misleading
- At least, that's my thinking," ended Tantripp, looking anxiously at the fire; "and if anybody was to marry me flattering himself I should wear those hijeous weepers two years for him, he'd be deceived by his own vanity, that's all."†
Chpt 8deceived = lied or misled
- In this way it was made clear that Middlemarch had never been deceived, and that there was no need to praise anybody for writing a book, since it was always done by somebody else.†
Chpt Fin.
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality