de·cep·tive
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| 1. | apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive. |
| 2. | perceptually misleading: It looks like a curved line, but it's deceptive. |
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deceptive
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| de·cep·tive
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adj. Deceptive or tending to deceive. de·cep'tive·ness n. |
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| deceptive | |
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| 1. | causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" |
| 2. | 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" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
deˈceptive [-tiv] adjective
deceiving; misleading
Example: Appearances may be deceptive.
See also: deception, deceptivelyExample: Appearances may be deceptive.
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Main Entry: de·cep·tive
Pronunciation: di-'sep-tiv
Function: adjective
: tending or having capacity to deceive <deceptive tradepractices> —compare FRAUDULENT, MISLEADING
| Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Deceptive
De*cep"tive\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]ceptif. See Deceive.] Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. --Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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