Sentence examples for deceives from inspiring English sources

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deceives

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Third person singular of deceive

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If the beauty business deceives people into spending money uselessly or harmfully, should it be stopped from doing so?

Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.

Francisco López de Úbeda's La picara Justina (1605; "Naughty Justina") tells the story of a woman picaro who deceives her lovers just as the picaro does his masters.

The divine is seen as a keeper of secrets, who deceives and makes sport of humanity, condemning it to suffering through ignorance.

WhatsApp has reportedly been the target of a new scam which deceives users into disclosing personal information.

And yet contemporary history lays its own traps, because its closeness to the present deceives us into assuming that the recent past is like the present, and it is so easy to forget that YouTube was founded only in 2005.

"If people see something that reminds them of a painting or a postcard then that's good because it deceives them all the more; they don't realise it's made of food until they get up close.

Both of these come from the front of the hand, and by scrambling the seam for his off-break, Narine deceives countless batsmen.

By not indicating a break between the actual events of the hanging and the fantasy of the condemned man, the film deceives the audience, until the very end, into thinking he is making an escape.

In "The Prestige," Nolan puts in an extra quarter and upgrades from one player who deceives himself in order to stay happy to two who deceive each other so that they can remain miserable.

Credit View full screen Unfortunately, that's not going to cut it, because Proverbs 26:18-19 tells us tellsone who deceives another and then says, "It was only a joke," is like a madman shooting at random his deadly darts and arrows.

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