All 6 Uses
deceive
in
The Heritage of the Desert
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- The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its deceiving purple distance.†
Chpt 1deceiving = lying or misleading
- The next instant they vanished, and the rapid clatter of hoofs down the road told Hare his eyes had not deceived him.†
Chpt 3 *deceived = lied or misled
- I hate to deceive him, but Mescal, pledged or not—I love you, and I won't give up hope.†
Chpt 8deceive = lie or mislead
- Therefore he laughed at the deceiving yellow distances in the foreground of glistening mesas, at the deceiving purple distances of the far-off horizon.†
Chpt 14deceiving = lying or misleading
- Therefore he laughed at the deceiving yellow distances in the foreground of glistening mesas, at the deceiving purple distances of the far-off horizon.†
Chpt 14
- It wouldn't deceive a child.†
Chpt 16deceive = 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)