deceived 1 of 2

past tense of deceive

deceived

2 of 2

adjective

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Recent Examples of deceived
Adjective
There is some relief on the way, but do not be deceived. Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025 Boeing previously admitted that two of its 737 MAX flight technical pilots deceived the Federal Aviation Administration’s aircraft evaluation group about an aircraft part known as MCAS that affected the flight control system of the Boeing 737 MAX. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025 While many followers recognized the scam early on, some were deceived and suffered financial loss. Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025 Abusers and traffickers are exploiting this lack of oversight—leaving women coerced, deceived, and sometimes poisoned. Christa Brown, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 One tool deleted a startup's entire client database on its own and deceived the user multiple times along the way. PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025 Andor hates him on sight, which only intensifies when Berend smacks around his mother and tears up the apartment looking for proof that Klára has deceived the boy with idealized fictions about his origins. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 Disgruntled shareholders file securities class action suits, claiming they were deceived. Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025 In a statement released by his lawyer, El Mayo claimed he was deceived by one of El Chapo’s sons and a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel himself, Joaquín Guzmán López, who lured him to the United States under false pretenses. Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceived
Verb
  • An Arizona inmate tricked court officials into releasing him more than two decades early by filing fake orders allegedly dismissing his charges.
    Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the women who spoke Monday addressed that claim directly, saying they were tricked and coerced from the start and that the deceit went far beyond one lie about where the video would be distributed.
    Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • My homies then were deluded, too.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Bob had to be valiant, dictatorial, curious, ever listening, wily, playful, deluded, strategic, flirtatious, fallible, political, and willing to protect and persevere against all doubters, critics, compass navigators, naysayers well intentioned or not.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After driving his team to the 1-yard line, Fields fooled the entire Steelers defense on a fourth down, faking a handoff and then high-stepping into the end zone untouched to take a 32-31 lead.
    Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And don’t be fooled by their small size — these dishes hold a surprising amount of food.
    Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There's also a common but misguided belief that non-quants are incapable of truly understanding quantitative reports of predictive performance and would only be misled by reports meant to speak in their straightforward business language.
    Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Clem said residents have been misled since the development first began taking shape.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lauber ruled that discounted cash flow valuation of land is erroneous as a matter of law.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One subject of a Raffi Khatchadourian piece complained that multiple details about his life were made up and demanded to know what idiot had given Khatchadourian the erroneous details.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Deceived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceived. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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