Deceptive

Related Terms:

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Definitions:

Adjective

deceptive delusory

Definition: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

deceptive misleading

Definition: 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"

Definition: Likely or attempting to deceive.