2 uses
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Definition
to lie to or mislead someone — occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality
- The great deceiver has no heart.2 — When the Exorcist Shall Go to the House of the Patient... (91% in)
- Miss Editha Woodworth sat propped up, motionless, under a huge lugubrious oil painting of—if Clumly's eyes did not deceive him—broken columns on a hillside, or possibly horses.1 — The Watchdog (75% in)
There are no more uses of "deceive" in The Sunlight Dialogues.
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