Deceive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECEIVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to mislead by falsehood
• deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain
• (of a thing) give (someone) a mistaken impression
• fail to admit to oneself that something is true
• mislead by lying
• To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.
• To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.
• To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.
• be false to; be dishonest with
• cause someone to believe an untruth
• be sexually unfaithful to (one's regular partner)

Words related to DECEIVE

deceivabilities23 deceivability24 deceivable18 deceivableness22 deceivably21 deceived15 deceiver14 deceivers15 deceives14 deceiving16 deceivingly21 deceivings17 delude8

Words that contain DECEIVE

deceived15 deceiver14 deceives14 deceivers15 undeceive15 undeceived17 undeceiver16 undeceives16 undeceivers17

How to use DECEIVE in a sentence

• John must have meant to deceive his readers, if he did not use them in the known and received sense.
• The mask that veils the hypocrisy is too thin to deceive anybody.
• Do not let the fact that you have certain friends among the influential men deceive you.
• My feminine prejudices did not, however, in this instance, deceive me.
• There was, therefore, no temptation to deceive for gain.
• He did not try to deceive himself, nor did he allow the glamour of false sentiment to blind him.
• He had never offered, in the first beginning of their acquaintance, to deceive her.
• But if he does not deceive them, it will be because he has overlooked it sure enough.
• Uncle John watched the young fellow shrewdly, but could discover little harm in him except his attempt to deceive them in regard to his name and position.
• He had read of this characteristic of caressing obedience of the women about to deceive.
• The devil must be very cunning to deceive a soul in this way.
• When he went with his report to Jules, he found it necessary to deceive him, for the unhappy man was in a high fever, unable to leave his bed.
• The people now see that two small, white balls are attached to the plumes, and he shows them to all present, to prove that he does not deceive them.
• Louis XIV, Charles II, and George IV are modeled after the old licentious pretense at manhood, but we may all rejoice that they deceive nobody now.
• We, who can make prettier curves and deceive larger game in a dancing-party at home, did not go to the Yo-Semite for that kind of sport.
• Presumably, the deadly variety assumes the colouring of the harmless kind in order to deceive intended victims as to his ferocity.
• He imitated those masters so closely as to deceive the most skilful critics.
• Only the most abandoned of men, said Cicero will deceive him, who would have remained uninjured if he had not trusted.
• They who say that truth is complicated deceive themselves, and the truth is not in them.
• And if she does him wrong, and he should be too just to deceive her, she can make him amends, by instances of greater confidence, when she pleases.
• If one of them had let his thumb approach the forefinger, it is plain to me that he would deceive me, for his thumb thus placed tells me that he is dead to my proposition.
• I have seen these things! My lords, do you know who pays the taxes you vote? The dying! Alas! you deceive yourselves.
• Do you think you can deceive me even though you may deceive yourself? We have known each other too long for that.
• A great mind has publicly raised the question whether it is permissible to deceive a people.
• The point was merely to console or deceive the soul with some substitute for happiness.
• After Halicarnassus had turned him back and set him going the right way, I took on a gruff, manny voice, to deceive.
• Her poor cousin the poplar, often so like her as to deceive you until ashen bough and rounded leaf instruct the eye, always grows near her like a protecting servant.
• The discussion was transferred to a false ground, and however the king may have chosen to deceive himself, was not being tried upon its real merits.
• There was no attempt on the part of either to deceive the other.

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