as in tricked
to cause to believe what is untrue
he went to great lengths to deceive his family about the nature of his new job at the mall
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Recent Examples of deceived
Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Klipsch Austin Portable Bluetooth Speaker Deal Don't be deceived by the small Klipsch Austin portable speaker.
—George Yang, PC Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Svetlana Petriychuk wrote the play Finist, the Brave Falcon, based on real events, about Russian women deceived into marrying ISIS fighters and traveling to Syria.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
Veteran Vietnam correspondent Neil Sheehan broke the story of the Pentagon Papers, which showed how government officials deceived the public about the Vietnam war.
—Kathy Kiely, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
Kent, a promoter of far-right conspiracy theories whom the Senate narrowly confirmed for the director role last July, accused the president of being deceived by Israel into supporting the war.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
Months after the girl had died, a DCF worker investigating a complaint related to Torres-García’s younger sister was deceived by the children’s mother during a video chat with a person the child’s mother asked to impersonate the child, according to the agency.
—Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
Residents should not be deceived by the unsupported and absurd revenue claims of the Moore administration.
—Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2026
So some people got deceived and believed it.
—Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
Verb
The firm says it was deceived again in June 2022, when IQHQ restructured and moved investor interests into a Delaware limited partnership structure.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Klipsch Austin Portable Bluetooth Speaker Deal Don't be deceived by the small Klipsch Austin portable speaker.
—George Yang, PC Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Svetlana Petriychuk wrote the play Finist, the Brave Falcon, based on real events, about Russian women deceived into marrying ISIS fighters and traveling to Syria.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
Veteran Vietnam correspondent Neil Sheehan broke the story of the Pentagon Papers, which showed how government officials deceived the public about the Vietnam war.
—Kathy Kiely, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
Kent, a promoter of far-right conspiracy theories whom the Senate narrowly confirmed for the director role last July, accused the president of being deceived by Israel into supporting the war.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
Months after the girl had died, a DCF worker investigating a complaint related to Torres-García’s younger sister was deceived by the children’s mother during a video chat with a person the child’s mother asked to impersonate the child, according to the agency.
—Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
Residents should not be deceived by the unsupported and absurd revenue claims of the Moore administration.
—Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2026
So some people got deceived and believed it.
—Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceived
Adjective
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His freelance interior-designer wife, Lindsay, isn’t so deluded.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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Becker interviews people from other disciplines—mathematicians, neuroscientists—and the result is a book that does a great job of showing how deluded, stupid, or in bad faith many of these billionaires’ claims are, and of providing a powerful antidote to hype.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Not long before Brettler's death, Sharma had learned the kid had tricked him.—
Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Read how North Korean hackers tricked Ben and got into his computer.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Many a hunter has been fooled into giving up too soon.—
Bruce Brady,
Outdoor Life,
8 Apr. 2026
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Because the malicious web pages look like legitimate services, users can be fooled into entering their passwords and two-factor codes, which the hackers steal.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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When the news breaks of faraway civilian casualties — an erroneous air strike on a school that relied on outdated intelligence, for example — the mind takes refuge in abstractions and statistics.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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But those who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made erroneous predictions of imminent mass starvation erred by underestimating the world‑changing potential of grasses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Voters were misled in the voter pamphlet by city projections of the fee amount.—
Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Dozens of local governments argue that these firms misled the public about climate risks and should now pay for rising sea levels, wildfires and extreme weather.—
Nicolas S. Rohatyn,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Deceived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceived. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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