All 36 Uses
deceive
in
The Brothers Karamazov
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- I was deceived.†
Chpt 2deceived = lied or misled
- I am not a cultivated man, and I don't even know how to address you properly, but you have been deceived and you have been too good-natured in letting us meet here.†
Chpt 2
- I was deceived.†
Chpt 2
- I declare to you all that I was as much deceived as any one.†
Chpt 2
- "The devil only knows, what if he deceives us?" thought Miuesov, still hesitating, and watching the retreating buffoon with distrustful eyes.†
Chpt 2deceives = lies or misleads
- If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's humane, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.†
Chpt 2deceive = lie or mislead
- ' I looked at the young lady, my voice had not deceived me.†
Chpt 3deceived = lied or misled
- Now Alyosha was impressed by Madame Hohlakov's blunt and persistent assertion that Katerina Ivanovna was in love with Ivan, and only deceived herself through some sort of pose, from "self-laceration," and tortured herself by her pretended love for Dmitri from some fancied duty of gratitude.†
Chpt 4
- He stands on a firm rock, too, he stands on his sensuality—though after we are thirty, indeed, there may be nothing else to stand on....But to hang on to seventy is nasty, better only to thirty; one might retain 'a shadow of nobility' by deceiving oneself.†
Chpt 5deceiving = lying or misleading
- We shall deceive them again, for we will not let Thee come to us again.†
Chpt 5deceive = lie or mislead
- And so, convinced of this, he sees that he must follow the counsel of the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction, and therefore accept lying and deception, and lead men consciously to death and destruction, and yet deceive them all the way so that they may not notice where they are being led, that the poor blind creatures may at least on the way think themselves happy.†
Chpt 5
- Dmitri Fyodorovitch kept persisting every day, 'You are deceiving me, you are hiding something from me!†
Chpt 5 *deceiving = lying or misleading
- So I told him those secret signals that he might see my slavish devotion, and might be satisfied that I was not deceiving him, but was telling him all I could.†
Chpt 5
- He is a perfect treasure, I'd give him twenty thousand to take care of for me without a receipt; but he has no eye for business, he is a perfect child, a crow could deceive him.†
Chpt 5deceive = lie or mislead
- You see, I deceived him just now, I made him promise to believe me and I told him a lie.†
Chpt 7deceived = lied or misled
- I'd rather every one thought me a robber and a murderer, I'd rather go to Siberia than that Katya should have the right to say that I deceived her and stole her money, and used her money to run away with Grushenka and begin a new life!†
Chpt 8
- Yes, his foreboding had not deceived him.†
Chpt 8
- He had half a mind to stay and see the cart packed with the remaining wines and provisions, knowing that they would deceive and defraud Mitya.†
Chpt 8deceive = lie or mislead
- They both deceived me a little bit at the time, and concealed it.†
Chpt 8deceived = lied or misled
- At last he reached the point in his story when he learned that Grushenka had deceived him and had returned from Samsonov's as soon as he left her there, though she had said that she would stay there till midnight.†
Chpt 9
- He'll say anything as a joke or from obstinacy, but he'll never deceive you against his conscience.†
Chpt 9deceive = lie or mislead
- And don't you ever deceive your mother except just this once, until I come back.†
Chpt 10
- He is lying to me, shameless deceiver, that's what it is!†
Chpt 11deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
- I should like some one to torture me, marry me and then torture me, deceive me and go away.†
Chpt 11deceive = lie or mislead
- "Be silent, deceiver, I knew it was Alyosha, I felt he was coming, and of course he has not come for nothing; of course he brings 'news,' " Ivan exclaimed frantically.†
Chpt 11deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
- To save the man who had deceived and insulted her and to help, in however small a degree, in saving him, by creating a strong impression in his favor.†
Chpt 12deceived = lied or misled
- And knowing that he had already deceived her (he had deceived her, believing that she was bound to endure everything from him, even treachery), she intentionally offered him three thousand roubles, and clearly, too clearly, let him understand that she was offering him money to deceive her.†
Chpt 12
- And knowing that he had already deceived her (he had deceived her, believing that she was bound to endure everything from him, even treachery), she intentionally offered him three thousand roubles, and clearly, too clearly, let him understand that she was offering him money to deceive her.†
Chpt 12
- And knowing that he had already deceived her (he had deceived her, believing that she was bound to endure everything from him, even treachery), she intentionally offered him three thousand roubles, and clearly, too clearly, let him understand that she was offering him money to deceive her.†
Chpt 12deceive = lie or mislead
- The talented young man, to whom I have referred already, Mr. Rakitin, characterized this heroine in brief and impressive terms: 'She was disillusioned early in life, deceived and ruined by a betrothed, who seduced and abandoned her.†
Chpt 12deceived = lied or misled
- After describing the result of this conversation and the moment when the prisoner learnt that Grushenka had not remained at Samsonov's, the sudden frenzy of the luckless man worn out with jealousy and nervous exhaustion, at the thought that she had deceived him and was now with his father, Ippolit Kirillovitch concluded by dwelling upon the fatal influence of chance.†
Chpt 12
- In that capacity he deceived his master, revealing to the prisoner the existence of the envelope with the notes in it and the signals by means of which he could get into the house.†
Chpt 12
- In fear and trembling I hastened to tell him every secret to pacify him, that he might see that I had not deceived him and let me off alive.'†
Chpt 12
- So it may be supposed that the poor fellow suffered pangs of remorse at having deceived his master, whom he loved as his benefactor.†
Chpt 12
- But his wounded heart grasped instantly that the woman had been concealing this new rival and deceiving him, because he was anything but a fiction to her, because he was the one hope of her life.†
Chpt 12deceiving = lying or misleading
- Granted that he deceived his father by tapping at the window, granted that he made his way in—I've said already that I do not for a moment believe that legend, but let it be so, let us suppose it for a moment.†
Chpt 12deceived = lied or misled
Definitions:
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(1)
(deceive) to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)