All 12 Uses
deceive
in
Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
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- Miss Dunn does not recognize him-the beard and the hat and the slight colonial accent completely deceive her.†
Chpt 2deceive = lie or mislead
- She discovered first that he was deceiving her-then, under your guidance, that he was trying to poison her.†
Chpt 3 *deceiving = lying or misleading
- So much longer for poor Mr Pengelley-and it is not more than he deserves; for mark you, he deceived his wife.†
Chpt 3deceived = lied or misled
- Poirot has deceived me so often that I now go warily.†
Chpt 3
- They deceived me!†
Chpt 5
- An old lady commits a crime in such a simple and clever fashion that I, Hercule Poirot, am completely deceived.†
Chpt 7
- I said hurriedly: 'Then when you said you were helping a stranger, you were wilfully deceiving me.†
Chpt 9deceiving = lying or misleading
- Never do I deceive you, Hastings.†
Chpt 9deceive = lie or mislead
- I only permit you to deceive yourself.†
Chpt 9
- They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them.†
Chpt 10
- They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them.†
Chpt 10
- 'The quickness of the hand deceives the eye,' said Poirot sententiously-and caught the sudden change in the Colonel's expression.†
Chpt 12deceives = 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)