(v. t.) To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.
(v. t.) To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.
(v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(2) Goodman deceived us all, the witnesses sorrowfully admitted.
(3) British MPs are deceiving themselves if they believe they do not bear some of the responsibility for the “terrible tragedy” unfolding in Syria, the former chancellor, George Osborne, said on Tuesday during an often anguished emergency debate in the House of Commons on the carnage being inflicted in eastern Aleppo.
(4) He also warned against allowing Iran to use the talks "to delay and deceive".
(5) Anything less amounts to “deceiving the public”, he said.
(6) The clinical picture of primary obstructive megaureter in the adult may be deceivingly unimpressive.
(7) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(8) These included worries about how to respond when patients asked questions which their consultants had previously deceived them about, worries about inflicting pain on patients, as with intravenous cannulation, and the role of the medical student in the clinical team.
(9) The Coalition linked the vote, which had been expected next week, to next weekend’s West Australian election campaign, claiming Labor was voting to keep the carbon tax while “deceiving” voters in Western Australia by saying they would terminate it.
(10) "When I heard my dad was giving evidence for the government," she says, "my first thought was not to be angry at him for being a hitman and deceiving me, it was to be mad at him for ratting."
(11) But if the referee doesn’t whistle for it, we can’t say anything about that.” Roberto Martínez offered a bullish take on the incident, seeming to suggest Sterling was hoping to deceive the referee into awarding the kick.
(12) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
(13) Two independent experiments were designed to investigate the effects of motivation to deceive and the type of verbal response on psychophysiological detection using the Guilty Knowledge Technique.
(14) One deceiving case of suicide with firearm is reported.
(15) The only people we deceived were the North Korean government," he added.
(16) With Mitrovic’s decoy run having deceived Neil’s defence the Spanish striker advanced only to find his initial shot blocked by Olsson.
(17) Simon Cowell today defended The X Factor ahead of this weekend's final, insisting that the ITV1 ratings winner had never deceived its viewers.
(18) Some states allow for this to be revoked if the mother has somehow been forced or deceived into signing.
(19) It is cruel to deceive the patient with false hopes.
(20) Doctors’ leaders have accused the Conservatives of deceiving the public by giving the NHS less than half the extra £10bn ministers regularly cite as proof of their support for the service.
Faithless
Definition:
(a.) Not believing; not giving credit.
(a.) Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
(a.) Not observant of promises or covenants.
(a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
(a.) Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
Example Sentences:
(1) The march of the faithless has also continued with 14.1 million people, about a quarter of the entire population, saying they had no religion at all, a rise of 6.4 million over the decade.
(2) radiothom – "radiohead's "creep" single with my first ever b-side discovery 'faithless the wonder boy'" WiredofHermiston – The Best of the Stranglers: "The only actual albums I had were The Best of the Stranglers (Christmas present from brother who clearly just wanted it for himself) and, rather oddly, an early Elton John album, Honky Chateau I think."
(3) It would be a mistake to imagine that these failures represent faithless or incompetent civil servants.
(4) Why aren’t these faithless, pusillanimous people retaliating as they should, by surging towards Ukip with cries of revenge against all Muslims?
(5) Teen becomes seventh 'faithless elector' to protest Trump as president-elect Read more “It is not enough unless he is going to sell the businesses,” said Richard Painter, a chief ethics counsel to President George W Bush.
(6) Artists including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Massive Attack and Faithless have refused to perform in Israel in response to calls for a cultural boycott.
(7) Tabanka is characterized by lassitude, anorexia, insomnia, feelings of worthlessness, anger, a loss of interest in work and other activities and, especially, by a preoccupation with the faithless one.
(8) As faithless Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction, wayward Nick Curran in Basic Instinct, or pinstriped Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, he managed to be at once virile and venal, authoritative and shifty, a strutting success story and a signpost to disaster.
(9) They've come to expect a certain faithlessness in their heads of state.
(10) May 5, 2014 Maxi Jazz of Faithless is a big noise in the Crystal Palace board room, according to Guardian football writer Dominic Fifield.
(11) The question is whether Plath was the doomed victim of a cruel and faithless husband, the view upheld by the feminists that have long dominated academe, or a suicidal Yank whose entire life - after her beloved father passed away when she was nine - was a dress rehearsal for death.
(12) Causal therapy consists in healing of this faithlessness and inability to trust.