Sentence examples for deceiving the reader from inspiring English sources

James Boswell knew comparatively little about Samuel Johnson's earlier years; it is one of the greatnesses of his Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (1791) that he succeeded, without inventing matter or deceiving the reader, in giving the sense of a life progressively unfolding.

I wrote the book to deceive the reader.

Never alter or edit a photo so that it could potentially mislead or deceive the reader.

In response to an attack video released earlier this week by an extreme group of anti-abortion activists, Christopher Hale penned a piece that tries to deceive the reader by claiming that Planned Parenthood did something wrong.

Although this type of inadvertent duplication may sometimes occur, it is not as significant as when large amounts of recycled text are used; this may be more indicative of the purposeful intent of an author to deceive the reader (Hexham, 1999).

Your ethical instincts are excellent: it is wrong to deceive the readers, even implicitly, and that's what your editor asked you to do.

* Dear God: What I'm promising here is that we won't ever deceive the readers with fake photographs again.

Is the subject deceiving the experimenter?

They call it deceiving the court.

If reports are true, then Chase was deceiving the public and it was deceiving investors.

He identified fake news as "false information based on non-existent or distorted data meant to deceive and manipulate the reader".