deceptiveness


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de·cep·tive

 (dĭ-sĕp′tĭv)
adj.
Deceiving or tending to deceive: a deceptive advertisement.
de·cep′tive·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.deceptiveness - the quality of being deceptive
obliquity
dishonesty - the quality of being dishonest
meretriciousness, speciousness - an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"
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deceptiveness

[dɪˈseptɪvnɪs] N → carácter m engañoso
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

deceptiveness

n → Täuschende(s) nt; the deceptiveness of the effects of perspective → die trügerischen Effekte der Perspektive; beware of the deceptiveness of statistics → Vorsicht, Statistiken sind irreführend
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

deceptiveness

[dɪˈsɛptɪvnɪs] n → carattere m ingannevole; (deliberate) → carattere infido
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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