Explore Deceive through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like mislead or misinform. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Deceive in a sentence
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Deceive meaning
To trick or mislead.
Synonyms of Deceive
Using Deceive
- The main meaning on this page is: To trick or mislead.
- Useful related words include: lead on, mislead, misinform, lead astray.
- In the example corpus, deceive often appears in combinations such as: to deceive, deceive the, deceive and.
Context around Deceive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deceive
- In this selection, "deceive" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, actually, hundreds, following and themselves stand out and add context to how "deceive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include intent to deceive and able to deceive themselves that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deceive" sits close to words such as acne, anonymously and asians, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deceive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But not all my escapades are designed to deceive. (9 words)
Flattered to deceive (yet again) in the opening 45 minutes. (10 words)
Instead, they consistently put on media spectacles to deceive the public. (11 words)
Not only does she become obsessed with killing Snow White, but she becomes so dead set on doing it that she even turns herself into a hideous old hag, just to deceive Snow White and deliver a poison apple. (39 words)
I imagine all of us could point to messages that are popular in our society that would at best distract us from what is important, and at worst actually deceive us about what really matters in our life. (38 words)
No sane analyst would believe that any management could be so irresponsible as to butcher next year’s first crop in this manner, just to deceive the public into believing that GuySuCo appears to be making progress. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
They bluff to deceive and deceive to bluff; they cherrypick ideas and facts and present them as an advertisement for themselves.
According to the police, the scam operation managed to deceive hundreds of victims across Thailand out of over 8000 million baht in the past four years.
Blues record signing Romelu Lukaku is currently on loan at Inter Milan, while former Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has flattered to deceive following his deadline-day move from Barcelona last summer.
But casual visitors might be able to deceive themselves that life has somehow returned to "normal" in central Israel, the broad swathe of land between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
But not all my escapades are designed to deceive.
Clark has gone into the book as he tries to deceive the referee by claiming he was fouled by the goalkeeper in the box.
Flattered to deceive (yet again) in the opening 45 minutes.
Grossman has been charged, together with Bhimjiyani, with furnishing four returns for the purposes of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 – which were false in a material particular, with the intent to deceive.
Havertz has largely flattered to deceive since his big-money move from Bayer Leverkusen three years ago, although Arteta appears to believe he was miscast as a false nine.
He added: “At almost every level there was an intent to deceive.
I am not talking about the Federal Government, but in the states where I worked, the governors knew me for that – that I would not deceive them and would speak the truth from the Bible.
I imagine all of us could point to messages that are popular in our society that would at best distract us from what is important, and at worst actually deceive us about what really matters in our life.
Instead, they consistently put on media spectacles to deceive the public.
Let no one deceive you that the grass is greener at the other end.
No sane analyst would believe that any management could be so irresponsible as to butcher next year’s first crop in this manner, just to deceive the public into believing that GuySuCo appears to be making progress.
Not only does she become obsessed with killing Snow White, but she becomes so dead set on doing it that she even turns herself into a hideous old hag, just to deceive Snow White and deliver a poison apple.
The agent signing after last summer’s window closed really flattered to deceive.
The alleged fraud took place largely on tribal land to deceive state officials.
The Labour team accused the federal government of using the meetings as a pretext to deceive Nigerians, claiming that government officials, who are members of the subcommittees were no where to be found.
They are all hired for one specific purpose: to deceive Ronald into actually thinking the case is real.
Common combinations with deceive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to deceive 147×
- deceive the 43×
- deceive and 9×
- and deceive 9×
- deceive you 9×
- deceive them 8×
- deceive or 7×
- deceive ourselves 6×
- can deceive 6×
- deceive us 5×