Definition of Deceiver

1. Noun. Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.


Definition of Deceiver

1. n. One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

Definition of Deceiver

1. Noun. A person who lies or deceives. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deceiver

1. one that deceives [n -S] - See also: deceives

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deceiver

decedents
deceit
deceitful
deceitfull
deceitfully
deceitfulness
deceitfulnesses
deceitless
deceits
deceiv'd
deceivable
deceivableness
deceivably
deceive
deceived
deceiver (current term)
deceivers
deceives
deceivest
deceiveth
deceiving
deceivingly
decelerate
decelerated
decelerates
decelerating
deceleration
decelerations
decelerator
decelerators

Literary usage of Deceiver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"The deceiver practises deception on individuals ; the impostor only on the public at large. The false friend and the faithless lover are deceivers; ..."

2. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"Where deceiver is innocent.—Suppose that a woman with a child marries a man, ... Where the beneficiary was an intentional deceiver, the presumption is that ..."

3. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"The deceit is regarded as treason and the deceiver as a traitor, which is worse. Yet not all truths can be spoken : some for our own sake, others for the ..."

4. The Aristocracy of Health: A Study of Physical Culture, Our Favorite Poisons by Mary Foote Henderson (1904)
"All poisons to a greater or less extent are deceivers, but tobacco is the chief deceiver. Gustafson, in his second book, "The Drink Problem," gives this ..."

5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"SAMUEL GORTON, THE SUBTLE deceiver. [From the Same.] NOT long before these troubles, there arrived at Boston, one Samuel Gorton, who from thence came to ..."

6. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"О Memory, thou fond deceiver, GOLDSMITH : Song. Past joys enhance the present pain. And sad remembrance is our bane. L Still importunate and vain, ..."

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