deceive
Example Sentences
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For Ms. Sweeney and Ms. Seyfried it provides an endless variety of opportunities to run through the soap-opera playbook of screaming, cowering, deceiving and attacking depending on the circumstances, which grow increasingly horrifying.
Top executives of subprime auto lender Tricolor were charged in a federal indictment alleging that they deceived the company’s bank lenders and double-pledged collateral ahead of its collapse into bankruptcy.
Crisis actor is a derogatory label used by conspiracy theorists to allege that someone is deceiving the public -- feigning injuries or death -- while posing as a victim of a tragic event.
From Barron's
The two women said they now understand how Mr Jenner deceived them both.
From BBC
In a statement on X on Sunday, he said subsequent investigations established he was "deceived, and at no time did I act maliciously".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
