deceives
- present tense form of deceive (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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He concluded his comments by reciting a poem by Pushkin - If Life Deceives You -which speaks of having the patience to know that better days are ahead, the AFP news agency reported.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2024
Now Hundreds are discovered in one Shire; and, if Fame Deceives us not, in a Village of Fourteen Houses in the North, are found so many of this Damned Brood.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
Deceives her Husband with her cunning Wiles, And Cheats his Scenses with her feigned Smiles.
From The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men by Various
The gold that on his quiver smiles, Deceives men's feares with flattering wiles.50 But O�—too well my wounds can tell— With bitter shafts 'tis sauc't too well.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Deceives me? no, not a bit of it.
From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar
