All 10 Uses of

deceive

in

A Death in the Family

Why was it so much fun, to pretend to be so nice and so really interested, to pretend it so well that somebody else believed you in spite of himself, just so that he would show that he was deceived once again, because if you honestly did mean it, this time, he didn't want to not tell you when you honestly seemed to want so much to know.†
Chpt 13

deceived = lied or misled

The ones who were really nice, the ones who never deceived him or teased him, were a few of the much bigger boys, who were never so attentive or kind as this, but just said, "Hello, there, and smiled as they went by, or maybe mussed up his hair or gave him a little punch, not to hurt or scare him, but only in play.†
Chpt 13

He could not understand what amused them so much about this game, or why they should pretend to be all kindness and interest for the sake of deceiving him into doing something still again that he knew they knew better than to do, but it gradually became clear to him that no matter how much they pretended good, they always meant meanness, and that the only way to guard against this was never to believe them, and never to do what they asked him to.†
Chpt 13

deceiving = lying or misleading

And so in time he found that no matter how nice they asked, he was not deceived by them and would not tell them his name, and this made him feel much better, except that now they seemed to have much less interest in him.†
Chpt 13

deceived = lied or misled

Rufus quickly came to suspect the more flagrant exaggerations of friendliness, but the subtler boys found, to their intense delight, that if only they varied the surface, the bait, from time to time, they would almost always deceive him.†
Chpt 13

deceive = lie or mislead

And so, feeling odd and foolish not because he felt they were really deceiving him or laughing at him, but only because with each public repetition of it he felt more silly, and less sure that it was really as pretty and enjoyable as he liked to think it was, he would give them one last anxious look, which always particularly tickled them, and would then raise his arms and turn round and round, singing, I'm a little busy bee, busy bee, busy bee, I'm a little busy bee, singing in the clover.†
Chpt 13

deceiving = lying or misleading

And because they were always there, and always seemed to be on his side, they could always keep him sufficiently deceived to come back for more than anyone in his right senses would come back for.†
Chpt 13

deceived = lied or misled

I think it's just a perfect shame, deceiving a little child like that who's been brought up to trust people, and laughing right in his face!†
Chpt 13 *

deceiving = lying or misleading

They could not conceive of what was being done to their mother, but in his own way each was sure that it was something evil, to which she was submitting almost without a struggle, and by which she was deceived.†
Chpt 17

deceived = lied or misled

There they stayed quiet, the deceived mother, the false son, the fatally wounded daughter; it was thus that Andrew found them and, with a glimpse of the noble painting it could be, said to himself, crying within himself, "It beats the Holy Family.†
Chpt 20

Definition:

to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality