The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deceivable \De*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [F. d['e]cevable.]
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Fitted to deceive; deceitful. [Obs.]
The fraud of deceivable traditions.
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Subject to deceit; capable of being misled.
Blind, and thereby deceivable.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Able to be deceived; gullible. 2 (context obsolete English) deceitful.
Usage examples of "deceivable".
But the cunning fox Diabolus, fearing that the people, after this sight, should, on a sudden summons, open the gates to the captains, came down with all haste from the castle, and made them retire into the body of the town, who, when he had them there, made this lying and deceivable speech unto them: ‘Gentlemen,’ quoth he, ‘although you are my trusty and well-beloved friends, yet I cannot but a little chide you for your late uncircumspect action, in going out to gaze on that great and mighty force that but yesterday sat down before, and have now entrenched themselves in order to the maintaining of a siege against the famous town of Mansoul.
Like to the scorpion so deceivable,* *deceitful That fhatt'rest with thy head when thou wilt sting.
And now it is so false and deceivable,* *deceitful That word and work, as in conclusion, Be nothing one.
How wouldst thou use me now, blind, and thereby Deceivable, in most things as a child, Helpless, thence easily contemn'd, and scorn'd, And last neglected?
And also he was so free and so gentle, and they so false and deceivable, that they ruled him peaceably.
The collaborators would be rewarded, the betrayers and profiteers, the vulnerable, the weak, the bribable, deceivable, the terrified would drift with sheep like obedience.