All 7 Uses
deceive
in
The Trial, by Fran Kafka
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- Maybe considerations of this sort weakened his power of resistance, but it was still necessary not to deceive oneself and to see everything as clearly as it could be seen at that moment.†
Chpt 7deceive = lie or mislead
- Finally his eyes grow dim, and he no longer knows whether it's really getting darker or just his eyes that are deceiving him.†
Chpt 9deceiving = lying or misleading
- All this seems to show he doesn't know anything about what the inside looks like or what it means, and that that's why he's being deceived.†
Chpt 9deceived = lied or misled
- But he's also being deceived by the man from the country as he's this man's subordinate and doesn't know it.†
Chpt 9 *
- It is well substantiated, and now I too think the doorkeeper must have been deceived.†
Chpt 9
- It's not clear whether the doorkeeper sees clearly or is deceived.†
Chpt 9
- If the doorkeeper understands clearly, then there could be some doubt about it, but if the doorkeeper has been deceived then the man is bound to believe the same thing.†
Chpt 9
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)