The Only Use of
deceive
in
Flowers for Algernon -- Short Story
- It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending--as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.
p. 14.1deceive = mislead (give the wrong impression)
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality