0 to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage -- 欺騙,矇騙;隱瞞
Anyway, I can't deceive him - it's against all my principles.
He repudiated the allegation that he had tried to deceive them.
I suspect these statistics flatter to deceive.
What really angered her was the dirty underhand way they had deceived her.
They deceived us into thinking they would come back later with our money.
The temptation to deceive arose again when we started our hospital duties with patients in our third year of medical school.
I do not mean that they have been intentionally developed to deceive anyone, or that contributors to religious systems were not, or are not, sincere.
We have already mentioned one - is it better to know a painful truth or to be happier but deceived?