deceive
verb (used with object)
to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude.
deceivableness
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a word derived from
deceive.
Example Sentences
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And oft it is uncertain, whether it be the necessary care of the body which is yet asking for sustenance, or whether a voluptuous deceivableness of greediness is proffering its services.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
The utmost deceivableness of unrighteousness cannot deceive itself into satisfactory misinterpretation; it is reduced always to a tremulous omission of the texts it is resolved to disobey.
From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
