Deceives is valid Scrabble Word

Is deceives a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for DECEIVES in dictionary:

VERB:

DECEIVE, 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
be sexually unfaithful to (one's regular partner)

Words related to DECEIVES

deceive13 deceived15 deceiving16

Words that contain DECEIVES

undeceives16

How to use DECEIVES in a sentence

The Banattee achieved this feat by adopting a stratagem which invariably deceives those who are ignorant of their habits and tactics.
It must be his consummate self-conceit that deceives him, if he is deceived.
He was one of those men of medium height, whose physique deceives every one save the anatomical expert.
She deceives us with a shadow, offers us a name in place of what we crave for with every nobler instinct of the soul.
Still, it is not the face that deceives, whatever Figaro may say, but it is we who are deceived in reading what is not there.
For the face of a man expresses exactly what he is, and if he deceives us it is not his fault but ours.
I wonder if he puts it on or if he deceives himself.
Again, suppose he deceives the foe while at war with them? Euth.
And does he who lies and deceives with intent know what is right rather than he who does either or both unconsciously? Euth.
By its teachings of bliss after death it deceives the people.

Teague wore the air of awkward, recklessly-helpless independence which so often deceives those who strike the mountain men for a trade.
If there be a young woman, honest and well brought up, he sets an immoral youth near her, and with all kinds of flattery deceives her, and makes her fall into sin.
It is like a mirage, which deceives man by leading him to think it is a body of water.
An ugly man may call himself handsome, but he deceives no one, and a black man may call himself white, yet he deceives no one, not even himself.
The arguments with which an unselfish, honest fellow deceives himself into wrong-doing always do bear quite a lot of investigation.
We are well aware that it covers the whole of our life, and that at its centre there reigns an intelligence which never deceives itself, which none can deceive.
Tell him that he deceives neither the world nor me.
A Perfect Master must avoid that which deceives, equally with that which is false.
In most cases, indeed, such trickery deceives nobody.
But where it truly deceives those who practise it, even if it deceive nobody else, you see there is no true Resignation.
But memory, however impartially distributed, so often deceives our trust, that almost every man attempts, by some artifice or other, to secure its fidelity.
The majesty of Swiss nature constantly deceives the eye, and it requires great care and much experience to prevent falling into these mistakes.
I think that any man who honestly justifies such course deceives himself.
If a friend promises me a service with the thumb drawn inward, he deceives.
He deceives them by showing them marks on his body.
Once is all any man or woman deceives me about the holiest things of life.
It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.
He often deceives the sportsman, and even birds themselves are sometimes imposed upon by this admirable mimic.
The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
And they succeed in producing a make-up that easily deceives the unwary and untaught.
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.
On the way they meet Archimago, disguised as a pilgrim, and he deceives them and leads them to Sansloy.
For that Poetry pleases the most, that deceives the most naturally.

Similar words containing CEIVE without suffix s and without prefix de

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