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The difficulty of the lottery is that it might not consistently deceive phylakes who have had a long term of sexual privation.
The easiest people to deceive are those who think that they are immune to deception.
The stepmother in the Snow White tale was evil, and she was wrong to try to deceive and kill Snow White.
Patients with anorexia nervosa often attempt to deceive health care professionals because they do not want treatment for their disorder.
But you didn't deceive even yourself, for your hand was shaking, and it wasn't the steam that made you dry your eyes.
A stand off in the Black Sea with Turkey is so much part and parcel of most openings that it can easily be dismissed as a ruse to deceive.
The implication of such involvement was an attempt to deceive, a successful attempt at the big lie.
Yet these same shapes become magical, their edges shimmer and shift, deceive and delight.
The move was obviously a manoeuvre intended to appease and, perhaps, deceive disaffected members who clamoured for fresh leadership of the party.
By bluffing and faking, you have to somehow provoke and deceive this system of defense.
The entire ad is built around an entirely intentional and fairly transparent attempt to deceive viewers.
What that tells me is that right now, whatever is being reported could be information to deceive and mislead people.
Irham said that candidates were found to have used various tricks to deceive the poll commission in their registration documents.
In rapid succession, the minister exposes her ignorance, selfishness, incompetence, and unhesitating willingness to deceive the British public.
It is more difficult upon a piece of white paper to deceive the expert spectator than it is with a lot of oil paint upon a canvas.
They portrayed the ruling capitalist class as all-powerful and able to exploit, manipulate and deceive workers at will.
They don't want to deceive each other with illusory promises of undying love.
Ships, towns, and whole armies might fly or display false arms to deceive the enemy.
You may indulge and enjoy some forbidden pleasures but cannot deceive yourself for long.
A pair of baboons acted precisely like conniving con artists in cooperating to deceive a third.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If I am thy fish, I will never deceive thee nor do aught to displease thee, and hereto I plight thee my troth.
I have more than once tried to deceive you, but you will feel that I am not now speaking falsely.
The red of the rubellite should not deceive anyone who has ever seen a fine corundum ruby.
They are possibly not startlingly brilliant, and he is perfectly easy to deceive.
It is undoubtedly better to deceive him entirely, and since he will be stubborn he must be tricked.
There being no enquiry that does more entice with the probability and deceive with the subtilty.
It is sufficient that the ambiguity was such as to deceive the friends of the Cyclops.
But the Prefet's party had perfidiously made thirty of its most devoted adherents vote for Albert, so as to deceive the enemy.
And if a Government spy wore it to deceive people, I would welcome his use of khaddar as so much economic gain to the country.
Ever since I was knee-high, you have been teaching me to deceive my father.
To lie, to deceive, to circumvent even the basest of mankind was odious to him.
But easy as it is to befool women-kind, it is difficult to deceive them, if we want to get rid of them.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Few even of the most artful Russians are able to deceive a Yakut of the woods.
The narrative is too evidently a literary device, one would think, to deceive anybody of awakened discernment.
The idea of using precautions with or attempting to deceive this rosily rotund 'character' seemed far-fetched and absurd.
Well, then, let me tell you that you will not overreach and deceive the Duke.
It is the very passions about whose origin we deceive ourselves that tyrannise most strongly over us.
The burgraves of the party of Order did not for a moment deceive themselves on the confidence that this unbosoming deserved.
She could not deceive her any longer, and determined to unburden her mind at once.
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