deceivable
AmericanUsage
What does deceivable mean? Deceivable means easily deceived—misled, cheated, or otherwise convinced of something that is not the truth. The word gullible means the same thing. The word is typically used to describe people who are lied to without knowing that they have been lied to—or people who are easily tricked into believing things that are not true. Con artists and scammers prey on deceivable people, whom they might call suckers or easy marks. Example: If a person doesn’t have a strong foundation in critical thinking, it’s likely that they are very deceivable.
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Etymology
Origin of deceivable
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at deceive, able
Example Sentences
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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 Goold Brown
Spots they are and filthiness: and of you they make a mockingstock feasting together in their deceivable ways: having eyes full of advoutry, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee, Whose duty is deceivable and false.
From King Richard II by William Shakespeare
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 Francis Bacon
There 's something in 't That is deceivable.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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