Definition of "deceived" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of deceive. (verb)

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• "The title deceived me into thinking this piece is going to be a critique of the wedding industry, yet ended up being anything but."
• "Mr O'Loughlin deceived the LDA about his company's financial health and overcharged it by more than £50,000."
• "If I had plighted you a perfect friendship, I am sure my heart could not have borne this rupture and lived; though, indeed, the amazement into which I am cast at having been deceived is so intense and poignant, that if it does not cut short my life, it will at least render it very unhappy."