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Significados de deceptive en inglés

Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently.

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Not in keeping with the reality or the facts.

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Examples for "false"
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In reality, however, what Trump said last night about crime was false.
Ebony
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Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.
The Guardian
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Later, Moore gave a statement to local news: This is absolutely false.
The Guardian
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However, unbalanced data sets resulted in an increase in the false-positive rate.
Pubmed
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The direct question I think still remains: have there been false negatives?
Radio NZ
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There is some difficulty in replying to a theorist so wholly delusive.
Woman and Labour
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But this little gleam of hope proved delusive to the last degree.
Seekers after God
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This world is a delusive charm of the great magician called Maya.
Nature Mysticism
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The false lights which sin had kindled shed only a delusive gleam.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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After this feeble, delusive thaw, silence set in as severely as before.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 / A Maga...

Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true.

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Uso de deceptive en inglés
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Those cases have dealt with deceptive statements by companies and security lapses.
Reuters
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Out in the open, and especially in the mountains, distances are deceptive.
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
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He added that this type of activity constitutes fraud and deceptive practices.
Wired
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She was, in reality, less deceptive in that respect than in others.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
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They have suggested that AOL may be guilty of deceptive trade practices.
Wired
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Some experts say these charges are deceptive and misleading, if not illegal.
Reuters
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Because of this, the FTC said that the threat was similarly deceptive.
Reuters
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Never were appearances more deceptive than in the case of those Stoneys.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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The FTC has a broad reach to investigate companies which are deceptive.
Reuters
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But the deceptive resemblance may be caused in quite a different manner.
Darwin and Modern Science
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The FTC charged that the policy was deceptive and violated federal law.
Reuters
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The shifting and deceptive quality of the darkness caused him to miss.
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
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Already Mrs. Anderson was becoming deceptive for the sake of the girl.
The Debtor: A Novel
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Avasarala's smile was indulgent and friendly and, he was almost certain, deceptive.
Nemesis Game
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The Wabbly was moving across the ploughed fields with a deceptive smoothness.
Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43
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Next day proposals, of peace were talked of; but they were deceptive.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 09
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