Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently.
Not in keeping with the reality or the facts.
Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true.
1 Those cases have dealt with deceptive statements by companies and security lapses.
2 Out in the open, and especially in the mountains, distances are deceptive .
3 He added that this type of activity constitutes fraud and deceptive practices.
4 She was, in reality, less deceptive in that respect than in others.
5 They have suggested that AOL may be guilty of deceptive trade practices.
6 Some experts say these charges are deceptive and misleading, if not illegal.
7 Because of this, the FTC said that the threat was similarly deceptive .
8 Never were appearances more deceptive than in the case of those Stoneys.
9 The FTC has a broad reach to investigate companies which are deceptive .
10 But the deceptive resemblance may be caused in quite a different manner.
11 The FTC charged that the policy was deceptive and violated federal law.
12 The shifting and deceptive quality of the darkness caused him to miss.
13 Already Mrs. Anderson was becoming deceptive for the sake of the girl.
14 Avasarala's smile was indulgent and friendly and, he was almost certain, deceptive .
15 The Wabbly was moving across the ploughed fields with a deceptive smoothness.
16 Next day proposals, of peace were talked of; but they were deceptive .
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