All 4 Uses of
deceive
in
A Passage to India
- Her voice had deceived him.†
Chpt 2deceived = lied or misled
- If he said he would come, he would come, he would never deceive his supporters.†
Chpt 4deceive = lie or mislead
- There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness.†
Chpt 9 *deceiving = lying or misleading
- Mahmoud Ali deceived me.†
Chpt 35deceived = lied or misled
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality