All 3 Uses of
deceive
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O Pioneers!
- Alexandra, all the way out from New York I've been planning how I could deceive you and make you think me a very enviable fellow, and here I am telling you the truth the first night.†
Chpt 2.4deceive = lie or mislead
- I waste a lot of time pretending to people, and the joke of it is, I don't think I ever deceive any one.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- "I don't deceive myself," Carl said frankly.†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality