The phrase "allowed to deceive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing permission or acceptance of dishonesty or misleading behavior.
Example: "In some situations, individuals may feel they are allowed to deceive others for personal gain."
Alternatives: "permitted to mislead" or "authorized to trick".
These results replicate and extend our previous findings to those circumstances under which subjects are allowed to choose when to deceive.
Different relationships impose different obligations, but neither of those in your situation allows you to deceive your closest friend.
The SEC's move "marks an escalation in the battle to expose conflicts of interest on Wall Street" and exposes a "cynical, savage culture" that allows dealers to deceive one customer to benefit another, said Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics.The charges also have implications for financial regulation.
Our addiction to combat allows us to deceive ourselves into thinking that hurting others brings security and peace.
It is not charming to hear someone who has emotionally manipulated any number of people — not just readers of the blog, but correspondents he deceived and allowed to confide in him over the course of years — to go on about the shallowness of others.
Because I prided myself on never having false hopes, on never permitting myself to imagine that things were better than they were, I asked myself whether I might be allowing the mirrors to deceive me.
An ingenious process called pseudocopulation allows the plants to deceive male bees into pollinating them.
Some experts suggested that former rulers had allowed the soot to accumulate to deceive invaders into thinking that the image was not of value.
This move is aimed at plugging gaps that allowed the disgraced money manager Bernard L. Madoff to deceive investors.
