All 10 Uses
deceive
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, as the office-seekers in the political parties seek to please and deceive the people.†
Chpt 2deceive = lie or mislead
- He possessed all the disposition to deceive, but wanted the power.†
Chpt 9
- There was no deceiving him.†
Chpt 10deceiving = lying or misleading
- Mr. Covey's FORTE consisted in his power to deceive.†
Chpt 10deceive = lie or mislead
- Every thing he possessed in the shape of learning or religion, he made conform to his disposition to deceive.†
Chpt 10 *
- He seemed to think himself equal to deceiving the Almighty.†
Chpt 10deceiving = lying or misleading
- such was his disposition, and success at deceiving, I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God; and this, too, at a time when he may be said to have been guilty of compelling his woman slave to commit the sin of adultery.†
Chpt 10
- such was his disposition, and success at deceiving, I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God; and this, too, at a time when he may be said to have been guilty of compelling his woman slave to commit the sin of adultery.†
Chpt 10deceived = lied or misled
- So, when the holidays ended, we staggered up from the filth of our wallowing, took a long breath, and marched to the field,—feeling, upon the whole, rather glad to go, from what our master had deceived us into a belief was freedom, back to the arms of slavery.†
Chpt 10
- The other was a most artful deceiver, and could be understood only by such as were skilful enough to detect his cunningly-devised frauds.†
Chpt 10deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
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)