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Example sentences for "deceived"

Lexicographically close words:
deceiued; deceiuing; deceivable; deceivableness; deceive; deceiver; deceivers; deceives; deceiveth; deceiving
  1. A damsel with whom he had fallen in love, prevailed on him to disclose some of his magical arts to her, by means of which she deceived him, and preserved her chastity by casting him into a deep sleep whenever he importuned her.

  2. Farmer on this, as on all occasions, are ingenious, and deserving of the highest respect; but it is hardly possible that Shakspeare could have been deceived in the way he states.

  3. The king being deceived by the knight and the damsel, returned in disgrace to his own country.

  4. Farmer had been deceived by the mode of printing Robinson's words, which have much the appearance of belonging to the bishop.

  5. One of the most open frauds, one which should not for a minute have deceived any investor in "securities" and things, was unearthed by Detective Clifton R.

  6. If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

  7. He completely deceived the shepherd, and when the flock was penned for the night he was shut in with the rest.

  8. I never deceived any one that I can recollect; and I'm sure I would not you--now that I've seen you.

  9. I have been deceived--but I have been deceived only by myself.

  10. Jacob, I am glad to see you again in my house; I was deceived by appearances, and did you injustice.

  11. She was deceived in his character, and refused to listen to a statement of facts.

  12. My little girl, have you too deceived and forsaken your unfortunate mother?

  13. Believe anything except that I wilfully deceived you.

  14. There is some fatal mystery attached to her conduct; for I am indeed deceived if she is not very wretched and there is some hope in that.

  15. She has had no time, my dear; but no one can be deceived by such a face.

  16. A very few days of personal intercourse sufficed for mutual conviction, that correspondence had not deceived in the favorable impressions of either.

  17. Dupin added that mademoiselle herself was deceived by the American's cunning, and he did not doubt but that she still persisted in his innocence.

  18. He was eyeing her narrowly, and there was a vigilance in the baleful gleam, as though of late he might have been deceived by his fellowmen.

  19. Had I my way this woman would be whipped at a cart's tail for the shameful way in which she has deceived us all.

  20. Indignant at the way in which she had deceived everyone, and having much at stake, Random did not spare her.

  21. Afterwards, however, he found out that Kelly had deceived him; those spirits which ministered at his bidding not being messengers from the Deity, as he once supposed, but lying spirits sent to deceive and to betray.

  22. Harrington was sure she had sunk; but a jutting peninsula of sand was near enough to have deceived him, especially through the twilight, which now drew on rapidly.

  23. He could not surely be deceived when he saw the body of the unfortunate painter!

  24. They are miserably deceived who expect eternal life, and restrain not their hands from blood and death.

  25. They are miserably deceived who look for wives from on high, and have not yet attained their manhood.

  26. We knew too well the propensity of low influences to appropriate to themselves great and even divine names, and the liability of the recipients to be deceived and to make the names the criterion instead of the communication itself.

  27. He felt that he had been deceived and defrauded.

  28. Can it be possible that I have been deceived by my vision?

  29. But did he acknowledge that he had deceived me?

  30. These words, spoken slowly, solemnly, and with a simulation of candor which would have deceived her even if she had not desired to believe them, produced the most profound impression upon the mind of Pepeeta.

  31. That all must be in some secret way guilty and miserable, he could not doubt, for it seemed to him impossible that in this world of darkness and disorder, any one should have been able to escape being deceived and victimized.

  32. I have been robbed, deceived and betrayed!

  33. It is a characteristic note of Stendhalian frankness--Stendhal, who never deceived anyone but himself.

  34. André is deceived by his wife, Cyprien lives lawlessly.

  35. He was a dashing soldier, and if Angela deceived him he was youthful enough to stand the shock.

  36. We must not be deceived by his desperate gayety.

  37. Increased turgor was, next, artificially induced by increase of internal hydrostatic pressure.

  38. Here is presented the unusual spectacle of the plant or the stem “wagging” in response to excitation.

  39. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary.

  40. Thus they explored the whole submarine plain, deceived at every turn by optical illusions which almost broke their hearts.

  41. We shall, however, give an account of various attempts to obtain a perpetual motion, because they may serve to show how much some persons have suffered themselves to be deceived on this subject.

  42. Orffyreus is, however, accused of being an impostor, of having imposed on the good faith of the prince, deceived M.

  43. In fact, I never for one instant deceived myself about her.

  44. He never deceived me, he never told me I should be his wife; I never dreamed of it myself.

  45. Have you deceived me, or was it that I knew not how to make use of your gifts?

  46. But the Egyptian false prophet brought a yet heavier disaster upon the Jews; for this impostor, coming into the country, and gaining the reputation of a prophet, gathered together thirty thousand men, who were deceived by him.

  47. Now of these we have evidence which ought to satisfy us, at least until it appear that mankind have ever been deceived by the same.

  48. Believe him who is the Master, and who for nearly three years has never deceived you.

  49. Inexperienced people are easily deceived by these contacts; however, the marked difference which exists between the falsidical and the veridical is quickly perceived, when we have become accustomed to these phenomena.

  50. Hodgson's argumentation is inoperative, and the faults, accumulated by the deceived observers whose impressions he cites, are excessive.

  51. Persons, who are not au courant with the features of secondary personalities, might easily be deceived and believe in his objective reality.

  52. The recognized precaution, never to put complete confidence in that which has once deceived us, holds of our relation to the senses as elsewhere.

  53. Bacon's injunction concerning these is not to be deceived by stage-plays (i.

  54. Rationalists and empiricists alike have been deceived in regard to the necessity for co-operation between the senses and the understanding.

  55. To be deceived means to think falsely; but that something is thought, no matter what it be, is no deception.

  56. But no disparagement to your parts, I have deceived wiser men than you in my time; and yet, with all my tricks, the blockheads have been too many for me at last.

  57. She appeared from that time more calm, and I imagined had gained a new degree of resolution; but appearances deceived me; for her tranquility was the langour of over-wrought resentment.

  58. Open that, my love, and read our anguish into patience, for she has vilely deceived us.

  59. Anxious to be convinced of whether he was being deceived or not, Bo Muzem readily agreed to this proposition; and in company with the grazier, he repaired to the house where the Jew was residing.

  60. Let all witness the revenge Bo Muzem will take on the unbelieving dog who has deceived him.

  61. He has not deceived you," said Jim; "take him and the rest of us there, and you will certainly be rewarded.

  62. By the aid of the Krooman, one of the merchants informed Harry that he had deceived them, that the sheik, of whose hospitality they had been partaking, had often visited Swearah, and was acquainted with all the foreign residents there.

  63. The sand, dust-dry under the heat of a burning sun, had deceived them.

  64. But nothing was now heard to the eastward; and he came to the conclusion that he had been deceived by an excited fancy.


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    Other words:
    barbaric; barbarous; deceived; heathen; hoodwinked; illiterate; misinformed; pagan; rude; uncultivated; uncultured; uneducated; uninstructed; unlearned; unlettered; unread; unrefined; unschooled; untaught; untutored