All 5 Uses of
deceive
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Lighthearted deceiver and fickle like all his sex he would never understand what he had meant to her and for an instant there was in the blue eyes a quick stinging of tears.†
Chpt 13deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
- Wherein, O wretched company, were ye all deceived for that was the voice of the god that was in a very grievous rage that he would presently lift his arm up and spill their souls for their abuses and their spillings done by them contrariwise to his word which forth to bring brenningly biddeth.†
Chpt 14deceived = lied or misled
- BLOOM: (With rollicking humour) I vowed that I never would leave her, She turned out a cruel deceiver.†
Chpt 15 *deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
- Meretricious finery to deceive the eye.†
Chpt 15deceive = lie or mislead
- hand to keep him from doing worse where it was too public I was dying to find out was he circumcised he was shaking like a jelly all over they want to do everything too quick take all the pleasure out of it and father waiting all the time for his dinner he told me to say I left my purse in the butchers and had to go back for it what a Deceiver then he wrote me that letter with all those words in it how could he have the face to any woman after his company manners making it so awkward after when we met asking me have I offended you with my eyelids down of course he saw I wasnt he had a few brains not like that other fool Henny Doyle he was always breaking or tearing something in th†
Chpt 18deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality