verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
people
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But is it not the only fair way to describe a policy that deceived so many people for so long?
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The scam, first detected in October 1994, deceived people from 41 states and the District of Columbia.
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Understandably, the Oeuvres complètes have deceived many people .
public
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It is a method of deceiving the public .
■ VERB
flatter
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The slapping sea sounds nice but it's insincere, flattering to deceive , flattering to deceive.
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But it was a success that flattered to deceive .
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After they lost their first two matches those fans must have wondered if once again Leeds were going to flatter to deceive .
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But once more the Paseo flatters to deceive .
try
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I remember that the Form Manipulator will try and deceive .
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It's useless to try and deceive them.
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Don't try to deceive me, Alain.
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Then he would try to deceive me: he would show me my nose which he had pulled off with his fingers.
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They are trying to deceive you but you are safe at the moment.
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These people did not try to deceive anyone.
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Charles and Lothar were not simply deceiving each other; still less did they try to deceive their own followers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All through the summer Paula was deceived her husband while she was seeing another man.
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If you think that everyone is happy with the plan, you're deceiving yourself.
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Kyl said voters had been deceived by supporters of the new bill.
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Many children's lies are unplanned and not actually designed to deceive .
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This was a deliberate attempt to deceive the public.
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Thousands of home buyers were deceived into buying homes at inflated prices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have been badly deceived and robbed.
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I wouldn't deceive you about anything as important as this.
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She deceives herself more than she deceives anyone else.
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She looks up and smiles at him with a sophisticated, coy, deceiving smile.
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So mortals learned that it is not possible to get the better of Zeus or ever deceive him.
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Those options are limited: shoot, kill, make love, deceive , ambush -- that sort of thing.