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verb ADV. easily Human nature is such that we easily deceive ourselves. VERB + DECEIVE attempt to, try to PREP. into The public should not be deceived into buying inferior goods.
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deceive
especially written to make someone who trusts you believe something that is not true:
• This was a deliberate attempt to deceive the public.
trick
to make someone believe something that is not true, in order to get something from them or make them do something:
• A man posing as an insurance agent had tricked her out of thousands of dollars.
fool
to make someone believe something that is not true by using a clever but simple trick:
• His hairpiece doesn’t fool anyone.
mislead
to make people believe something that is not true, by deliberately not giving them all the facts, or by saying something that is only partly true:
• The company was accused of misleading customers about the nutritional value of the product.
dupe
informal to trick or deceive someone, especially so that they become involved in someone else’s dishonest activity without realizing it:
• The spies duped government and military officials alike.
con
informal to trick someone, especially by telling them something that is not true:
• I’m pretty good at judging people; I didn’t think he was trying to con me.
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