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deceptively

[ dih-sep-tiv-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that tends to mislead or give a false impression:
This game is played with such deceptively simple materials, yet is so interestingly complex!
Some of these harmful foods are deceptively marketed as "healthy" by giant food corporations.
in a way that is perceptually misleading:
If only a segment of sky is visible, the bands of Earth’s shadow and the Belt of Venus appear deceptively parallel.

First recorded in 1810–20; deceptive ( def ) + -ly ( def )

That Snapchat deceptively told its users that the sender would be notified if a recipient took a screenshot of a snap.

Ernst won her race for Montgomery County auditor, a deceptively powerful position in local Hawkeye State politics, in 2005.

She is a woman with strong, provocative, and deceptively intuitive opinions.

Watercolors are strikingly identical and the charcoal works, done with color pencil, are deceptively perfect.

Like a lot of great bookstores, on the outside, Green Apple is deceptively simple, humble, even misleading.

He had come away in the sour mood of a thirsty man who finds an alkali spring sparkling deceptively under a rock.

If the materialist use the words "right" and "obligation," he does it deceptively, and means only compulsion and power.

He watched Harrington make a deceptively pointless-looking move.

A small, clear stream flowed below it to the left, so deceptively clear that it reflected the hillside in all its natural tints.

He was not hurrying, but his short wolf-trot ate up ground in deceptively quick time.

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