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deceptive meaning and definition
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Definition of deceptive (adjective)
- causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
- "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
- synonyms: delusory
- 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"; "shoddy business practices"
- synonyms: misleading, shoddy
Source: Princeton University Wordnet