Example Sentences

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To reiterate: They have deceived us, or, to put it simply, they have played us.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022

“I have deceived my friends,” he said at the time, “and I had millions of them.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2019

He spoke of Rybolovlev’s paranoia, with its roots in the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, and how he could never have deceived a man like that for more than a decade.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016

Both men are compulsive liars who have deceived and defrauded their own families, friends and acquaintances throughout their entire adult lives.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2013

I said, and my careless tone, my little ineffectual smile would scarcely have deceived a child.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier