(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.
Ulterior
Definition:
(a.) Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither.
(a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
(n.) Ulterior side or part.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total gastrectomy is rarely indicated in childhood and when necessary it involves multiple ulterior therapeutic problems, mainly nutritional, which need a meticulous physiological approach to avoid further complications, as illustrated by the following patient who, at age 15 months, was submitted to total gastric resection, Y en Roux esophagojejunal anastomosis and splenectomy, because of peritonitis secondary to dehiscence of a recent esophagogastric anastomosis for partial gastric resection due to gastric volvulus and necrosis, which in turn were associated to diaphragmatic relaxation.
(2) She described the president, whom she has known for 40 years, as “a person without ulterior motives”.
(3) The addition of alpha-ecdysone permits only cellular divisions, a preliminary and indispensable condition for ulterior differentiation.
(4) The report made wild guesses, and was groundless and with ulterior motives,” the spokesperson said, adding that China’s stance was “clear”.
(5) Number 10 has been trying to contain the damage by briefing that the former work and pensions secretary is a ludicrous figure with an ulterior motive.
(6) Refugees from the Middle East and north Africa are “masking the movement” of terrorists and criminals, Nato’s top commander told Congress on Tuesday, despite the protests of human rights groups who say that refugees overwhelmingly have no ulterior motive but escape.
(7) Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the Dalai Lama had "ulterior motives" for his remarks.
(8) Ulterior motive in the helper would have to be excluded.
(9) "There are no ulterior motives other than genuinely sharing things we enjoy.
(10) After de follow-up study over 10 years regarding the children coming from a special scholarship (type 8) and having received all the adapted aids, it seems that a good adaptation has resulted to a good ulterior professional training college.
(11) As ever with Ashley, people will look for ulterior motives.
(12) A spokesman, Hong Lei, said the report "blackens China's name and has ulterior motives".
(13) But there is an ulterior motive,” said Luke Akehurst, a Labour councillor and former NEC member.
(14) After 12 weeks the mean pressure was ulteriorly lowered to some 104.3 mm Hg (13.90 kPa) on bopindolol and to some 106.0 mm Hg (14.12 kPa) on metoprolol.
(15) While the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, acknowledged that his country's problems are "homemade" and that his government has a duty to put "our own house in order", he went on to claim that the crisis had been exacerbated by outside interference: "This an attack on the eurozone by certain other interests, political or financial … We are being targeted, particularly with an ulterior motive or agenda, and of course there is speculation in the world markets."
(16) I have an ulterior motive for wishing to contribute to Gove's scheme.
(17) The quality of the relation of attunement determines probably the ulterior level of the inter-subjective relatedness of the ability to "be-with", to share.
(18) Questioned by Pleming, Roberts denied he had said the marine reserve idea was a plan with an "ulterior motive" – namely, to prevent the islanders from returning.
(19) Hugh Lovatt, Israel and Palestine coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations , said that while al-Arouri was a significant Hamas figure – serving as the group's most prominent representative in Turkey – the former militant could have an ulterior motive for making his claim.
(20) Ulteriorly however, although dosages of Metiamide were increased, acid hypersecretion resumed and a duodenal ulcer developed.