(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.
Overreach
Definition:
(v. t.) To reach above or beyond in any direction.
(v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
(v. i.) To reach too far
(v. i.) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.
(v. i.) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
(v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.
(n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Governor Phil Bryant only offered a grudging acceptance of the order, saying the court had overreached into states’ rights and was “certainly out of step with the majority of Mississippians”.
(2) I appreciate things like that.” News about things like overreach in government surveillance make her uneasy but she said her tendency would be to shrug and say: “As long as I have no plans to threaten the national security, I don’t really have any reason to worry.” “In term of health privacy though, once we start thinking about health and our families, I think it’s very easy to realize that this is the most sensitive personal information about us,” she said.
(3) To self-described “militia members” sleeping in wind-whipped tents, drinking camp coffee and patrolling rocky hillsides with military-style weapons, protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family from an overreaching federal government is a patriotic duty .
(4) They know how we tick in America and Europe – and they know what pushes us toward intervention and overreach.
(5) We would have made things much worse by going in there.” Blair, who was steeped in interventionist ideals about fighting global “evil”, certainly overreached his authority.
(6) The attorney general, George Brandis , said Heydon was a man of “stainless integrity” and casting doubt on his impartiality was a “terrible overreach by the Labor party”.
(7) Tony Abbott’s got himself into a real situation here where he overreached and said that he would shirtfront the Russian president and clearly he’s not going to shirtfront him.
(8) The government had been trying to slash the RET after a review last year found the legislated 41,000GWh could overreach the policy goal of 20% of all energy coming from renewables by 2020.
(9) We need food consumers to band with us on government overreach and extreme environmentalism,” Erin Maupin, a Harney County rancher in attendance, told the Guardian.
(10) The government's intense secrecy is an overreach, conducted at the expense of international law, human rights and popular notions of fairness.
(11) "Leakers and whistleblowers, together with the investigative journalists they inform, are a critically important pressure valve, however imperfect, that protect us from an overreaching national security establishment that uses the justifiable needs of operational secrecy to avoid scrutiny for its errors of judgment, incompetence, or malfeasance.
(12) I talked Charles up in the briefings but some of the journalists thought Charles was overreaching himself.
(13) The White House has responded with fury, calling it another case of “egregious overreach by a single unelected judge”.
(14) We are pleased that the court ruled against the Obama administration’s latest illegal federal overreach,” said Texas attorney general Ken Paxton , who led the challenge by Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona, Maine, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Georgia, Mississippi and Kentucky.
(15) The groups called on the intelligence and security committee to consider whether some form of warrant process should be required for access to metadata to guard against agency overreach.
(16) Why are the Coalition and Labor both embracing this overreaching law?
(17) And now that the trial is over, I am none the wiser – save to say that I think the prosecution overreached itself in pushing for premeditated murder and that I agree with the judge that the evidence did not support the charge.
(18) We can not have a two tiered internet that supports the privileged and leaves the rest of us lagging behind.” But Republican commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Reilly the FCC was overreaching and its attempts at regulation were likely to be harmful and would fail.
(19) In his speech, titled “securing freedom in the age of terrorism”, Brandis argued the domestic security risk posed by terrorists must not be underestimated, but the government had “been careful” to ensure it did not overreach in its response to the threat.
(20) Legal experts have warned the government has overreached in applying the revocation powers to these kind of offences.