All 5 Uses
deceive
in
Uncle Vanya
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- It is thought immoral for a woman to deceive an old husband whom she hates, but quite moral for her to strangle her poor youth in her breast and banish every vital desire from her heart.†
Act 1deceive = lie or mislead
- I hate all that rhetoric of hers, that morality of indolence, that absurd talk about the destruction of the world——[A pause] Oh, how I have been deceived!†
Act 2 *deceived = lied or misled
- I have been deceived; I see that now, basely deceived.†
Act 2
- I have been deceived; I see that now, basely deceived.†
Act 2
- Those who marry old men and then deceive them under the noses of all, are sane!†
Act 4deceive = lie or mislead
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)