All 13 Uses of
deceive
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- And if he had not meanwhile held himself hard it might have made him so to hear the tone in which she suddenly exclaimed, as if she were accusing him of having accused her: "I've not deceived you!†
Chpt 32
- She has deceived me.†
Chpt 33 *
- To please me by deceiving me?†
Chpt 33
- "You don't accuse him of having deceived you; why should you accuse Madame Merle?"†
Chpt 33
- There were times when she almost pitied him; for if she had not deceived him in intention she understood how completely she must have done so in fact.†
Chpt 42
- Were there only three or four that didn't deceive their husbands?†
Chpt 42
- Very often, however, she felt afraid, and it used to come over her, as I have intimated, that she had deceived him at the very first.†
Chpt 42
- It little mattered that Isabel would know much better; it was for his own satisfaction more than for hers that he longed to show her he was not deceived.†
Chpt 45
- Isabel's hospitality, however, raised no questions, and she found no great difficulty in appearing happy enough to deceive him.†
Chpt 47
- It was her conviction at least that she deceived him, made him say to himself that he had been misinformed.†
Chpt 47
- He cultivated this art in order to deceive himself, but it was others that he deceived first.†
Chpt 48
- He cultivated this art in order to deceive himself, but it was others that he deceived first.†
Chpt 48
- You can't deceive me any more; for God's sake be honest with a man who's so honest with you.†
Chpt 55
Definition:
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(deceive) to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality