(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.
Hocus
Definition:
(v. t.) To deceive or cheat.
(v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker.
(v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor.
(n.) One who cheats or deceives.
(n.) Drugged liquor.
Example Sentences:
(1) What more fitting tool for such a purpose than some science that is really hocus pocus?
(2) Further aid should only be granted if Greece takes real measures instead of “another hocus-pocus”.
(3) (4) Present knowledge of anesthesia, coagulation problems, infections and antibiotics, blood gas changes, electrolytes and fluid therapy, and other advances in the surgical field allow the physician to treat severe pit viper envenomation by scientific means rather than by hocus-pocus.
(4) One thing I put in Hocus Pocus [was] about the Alamo, which is one of our great monuments.
(5) Matthew Barney – Cremaster 3 (2002) The Chrysler building is the scene of mythic happenings and strange hocus pocus in the central film from Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle.
(6) Most of your novels, such as Hocus Pocus , seem to offer a kind of ironic commentary on America, or at least what America's become.
(7) Starting with the Spag test: very few people seem to know about the extraordinary conjuring trick that produced this exam, though I guess you can't believe your luck at how easy it was to impose such a piece of hocus-pocus.