deceivable

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Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee, Whose duty is deceivable and false.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William

Hooker has unaptest; Locke, more uncorrupted; Holder, more undeceivable: for these the proper expressions would have been the opposite signs without the negation: least apt, less corrupted, less deceivable.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

There 's something in 't That is deceivable.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

Therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign, which is more deceivable; but as a cause, which seldom faileth of the effect.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

The next point was to persuade that royal and most deceivable individual that he had entertained an earnest desire to see Richard married to a Princess of Savoy, a cousin of the Queen.

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Holt, Emily Sarah