deceive Définition En Français

  • 0 to deliberately mislead -- tromper

    • deceived into thinking sth à qui l’on fait croire qqch

    • They had been deceived by their leaders. Ils avaient été trompés/dupés par leurs dirigeants.

  • 1 to not admit to yourself that sth is true -- se raconter des histoires

    • If you think she loves you, you’re deceiving yourself. Si tu penses qu’elle t’aime, tu te racontes des histoires.

  • 2 to mislead or cause to make mistakes, usually by giving or suggesting false information -- tromper

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Examples of deceive

  • Consumers are generally unaware of what is happening and are being deceived.

  • In committee, we jointly drew up and put forward criteria which have to be met by products designated ‘fair trade’ so as not to deceive consumers.

  • However, the first rule of responsibility is not to try to deceive oneself, especially where money is concerned.

  • Moreover, some excessively general assertions such as ‘healthy’ or ‘good for you’ have absolutely no scientific foundation and may even deceive the buyer.

  • In that case we would be deceiving both ourselves and others.

  • Labelling is an area where it is easy to deceive the consumer.

  • The list of companies that have deployed, above all, their criminal intelligence to deceive euphoric financial markets has become extremely long in recent years.

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