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deceptive

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de·cep·tive  (d-sptv)
adj.
Deceptive or tending to deceive.
de·ceptive·ness n.
deceptive
Adjective
likely or designed to deceive
deceptively adv
deceptiveness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.deceptive - causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
delusory
unreal - not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"
2.deceptive - designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
misleading, shoddy
dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
deceptive
adjective 1. misleading, false, fake, mock, ambiguous, unreliable, spurious, illusory, specious, fallacious, delusive
2. dishonest, deceiving, fraudulent, treacherous, hypocritical, crafty, sneaky, two-faced, disingenuous, deceitful, untrustworthy, underhand, insincere, duplicitous, guileful
Translations
deceptive [dɪˈsɛptɪv] adj → engañoso
deceptive [dɪˈsɛptɪv] adj → trompeur/euse
deceptive [dɪˈsɛptɪv] deception adj → irreführend, täuschend
deceptive [dɪˈsɛptɪv] adj → ingannevole


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A few rays of light, a wan, sinister light, that seemed to have been stolen from an expiring luminary, fell through some opening or other upon an old tower that raised its pasteboard battlements on the stage; everything, in this deceptive light, adopted a fantastic shape.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
Heartily, verily, even when I CREEP into bed--: there, still laugheth and wantoneth my hidden happiness; even my deceptive dream laugheth.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
They disappeared into the forest, and Count Orlov-Denisov, having seen Grekov off, returned, shivering from the freshness of the early dawn and excited by what he had undertaken on his own responsibility, and began looking at the enemy camp, now just visible in the deceptive light of dawn and the dying campfires.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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