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deceptive
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As an adjective, deceptive means likely or attempting to deceive.
Meanings of deceptive
3 meaningsadjective
Likely or attempting to deceive.
“deceptive practices”
“Appearances can be deceptive.”
Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
“deceptive calm”
“a delusory pleasure”
Similar: delusoryDesigned to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
“the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm”
“deliberately deceptive packaging”
“a misleading similarity”
Similar: misleading
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
adjective: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believ…
adjective: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or ina…
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