Be false to; be dishonest with.
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Examples for "deceive "
Examples for "deceive "
1 I could not deceive her; she had seen it in my eye.
2 But it was in vain; she could not deceive her rising jealousy.
3 You cannot deceive me; I have seen the world and know it.
4 Mr Quigley told parliament Mr Palmer had tried to deceive the public.
5 The audience is taken by the hand and led to deceive themselves.
1 So choose; but don't delude yourself that it is not a choice.
2 Perhaps he wasn't just pretending to hear voices to delude the gullible.
3 The rest are happy if they can delude themselves for the moment.
4 If I can delude the woman through the muse, I am satisfied.
5 He smiled boyishly, convinced he would always be able to delude her.
1 This day my cozen Thomas dropped his hanger, and it was lost.
2 Thence to the Temple to my cozen Roger Pepys, and thence to Serjt.
3 I must cozen a supply of those, before I leave.
4 Don't cozen me, Snow, you know I won't have it.
5 There is no help for it but that I cozen him into divorcing me.
1 DPMC wanted to take the lead on this problem, Mr Kibblewhite said.
2 If you want to help us, then by all means lead on .
3 Looking back, Cohler says, Parker was absolutely the lead on those negotiations.
4 We got a possible lead on a van in the Cumberland River.
5 It was Saturday, which meant Garrett was the lead on the case.
6 We think we have a lead on a group called the Amalgam.
7 St Michael's took the lead on 22 minutes when Lynch touched down.
8 He's qualified to step into this job and lead on day one.
9 It's her first real lead on how to talk to the aliens.
10 Let's go-themagistrate's sister has come up with a lead on Pertinax-
11 The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn.
12 He to command the vessel; Menendez to assume the lead on landing.
13 Pat Hughes increased their lead on the restart as they coasted home.
14 BAML was left lead on both the euro and dollar term loans.
15 Arthur felt it was time to take the lead on the investigation.
16 Sub-adults do lead on occasion but only adult females are consistent leaders.
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This collocation consists of: Lead on across language varieties