All 8 Uses
deceive
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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- It seemed to her that in her external bearing she had succeeded only in deceiving Mrs. Shigemura; inwardly she knew her aspiration for worldly happiness was frighteningly irresistible.†
Chpt 7deceiving = lying or misleading
- She confessed to experiencing a moral anguish over meeting him so secretly and deceiving her mother and father.†
Chpt 12 *
- She repeated that it made her unhappy to deceive the world.†
Chpt 12deceive = lie or mislead
- They began to kiss against the moss inside the tree, but the touch of it felt to her false somehow, an attempt to obliterate the truth of the world and to deceive themselves with their lips.†
Chpt 14
- I've deceived you and I've always known it.†
Chpt 15deceived = lied or misled
- "Deceiving me," said Fujiko in Japanese, "is only half of it, daughter.†
Chpt 15deceiving = lying or misleading
- You have deceived yourself, too.†
Chpt 15deceived = lied or misled
- She told them about the hollow tree in the woods and how Ishmael and Hatsue had deceived the world for a number of years successfully.†
Chpt 15
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)