deceiver

Example Sentences

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Trauma is a nasty deceiver, both in the way it makes survivors distrust their memories and the way we, its witnesses, interpret it in the context of everything we see.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

Santos isn’t trans, but it can’t be good to have this new element folded into the larger story of the congressman as a liar and a deceiver.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2023

Jacob was a popular boy’s name in Old Testament times, and meant "the one who grasps," "the angler," "the deceiver" or "the supplanter."

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2022

When we look at photos of Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, coming and going from court, he tends to be smiling, the proud, bold deceiver.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2018

By late 1935, deliberately or not, Brundage had crossed the line between deceived and deceiver.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown