(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.
Gull
Definition:
(v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
(n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
(n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.
(n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The normal bacterial and fungal flora of the seagull was established and it is considered that the C. albicans in fresh gull droppings would not materially increase albicans infections in man.
(2) People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.
(3) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
(4) Renal clearance experiments were performed on herring gull (Larus argentatus) and great black-backed gull chicks (L. marinus) to test the importance of parathyroid hormone (PTH), parathyroidectomy (PTX), and calcium loading on excretion patterns of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate.
(5) "It's the people who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who were gulled, who were tricked effectively.
(6) The rate of isolation from gulls was 0.26% in the cold months and 3.0% in the warm months.
(7) Though waterbirds, including moorhens and gulls, live on the margins, and a thin scum of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors.
(8) Nine of 16 gulls rigorously examined were found infected simultaneously with both species.
(9) Cloacal swabs collected from 264 ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) at four sites near Montréal, Canada were cultured for the presence of Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp.
(10) In view of the endangered status of Audouin's gull, there is a need to observe closely the developing trend of contamination in this species.
(11) Clinical, necropsy, bacteriologic, parasitologic, histopathologic, toxicologic and animal inoculation studies suggest that organochlorine (PBC, dieldrin and DDE) poisoning was an important factor in causing deaths of free-flying ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) in southern Ontario in 1969 and 1973.
(12) Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii) is a very rare species endemic to the Mediterranean basin.
(13) The Northern Ireland secretary is making clear this work will accelerate and the existing Operation Gull to tackle illegal migration to Northern Ireland expanded to close any potential backdoor to Britain post-Brexit.
(14) The nature of the vascular alpha-adrenoceptors has been studied in the herring gull, Larus argentatus.
(15) Landfill disposal of a fertilizer manufacturing waste product was associated with a die-off of gulls in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
(16) About one-third of oxychlordane in herring gull eggs was lost in 1 year under these conditions, but none was lost after freeze-drying when the homogenate was stored at -18 degrees to -28 degrees C.
(17) The rate for C. jejuni and C. coli, respectively, was in gulls from regional garbage dumps 78% and 4%, from the coast 58% and 21%, and from islands 47% and 47% of the isolations in the corresponding area.
(18) those feeding on other birds (sparrow-hawk 33.00 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs, hawk 239.98 mg.kg-1 in fat) or those associated with water (great crested grebe 11.97 mg.kg-1, sea-gull 11.24 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs).
(19) In 1967, shell thickness in herring gull eggs from five states decreased with increases in chlorinated hydrocarbon residues.
(20) The brains of gulls dying with clinical signs of neurologic involvement, and dead gulls with no other apparent cause of death, contained organochlorine residues of significantly greater levels than those found in healthy gulls shot for comparison.