Sentence examples for was being deceptive from inspiring English sources

Once again, he was being deceptive; not only was he positive that he would take this step — the proclamation had been written already — but he was ready to act in advance of the November elections.

But it turned out later that Moscow was being deceptive, while Tehran was honest from the outset when it rejected the Geneva process, as its policy was based on holding on to Assad under any circumstance and not compromise on this position by accepting a transitional authority with full powers.

So who is being "deceptive" here, to use Kloor's word?

"I still fail to see -- having read the opinion several times -- how we are being deceptive," he said.

"It is implausible to imagine that the only times that your body shows increased arousal when you answer a question is when you're being deceptive".

Sloan's faltering memory prompted Coen to comment at one point during his testimony: "I find that this witness is being deceptive".

A psychologist and former special agent for the F.B.I., she is trained to detect a range of voluntary and involuntary signs that a person is being deceptive by assessing facial action, involuntary microexpressions, body language and more.

So far, the administration has provided only vague and conflicting descriptions about the American role, suggesting that officials either have not thought through the plan or are being deceptive about it.

Floyd needs to see at least two of these behaviours before he can say someone is being deceptive, and the more that show up the better.

It has also been argued that they are being deceptive, even if they lack an intention that their untruthful statements be believed to be true (Lackey 2013; but see Fallis 2015).

"When they say it doesn't mean 'the race,' it means 'the people,' they're being deceptive.