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de·cep·tive    Audio Help   [di-sep-tiv] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
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.

[Origin: 1605–15; < ML déceptīvus, equiv. to L décept(us) (see deception) + -īvus -ive]

de·cep·tive·ly, adverb
de·cep·tive·ness, noun

1. delusive, fallacious, specious.
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de·cep·tive·ly    Audio Help   (dĭ-sěp'tĭv-lē)  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   In a deceptive or deceiving manner; so as to deceive.

Usage Note: When deceptively is used to modify an adjective, the meaning is often unclear. Does the sentence The pool is deceptively shallow mean that the pool is shallower or deeper than it appears? When the Usage Panel was asked to decide, 50 percent thought the pool shallower than it appears, 32 percent thought it deeper than it appears, and 18 percent said it was impossible to judge. Thus a warning notice worded in such a way would be misinterpreted by many of the people who read it, and others would be uncertain as to which sense was intended. Where the context does not make the meaning of deceptively clear, the sentence should be rewritten, as in The pool is shallower than it looks or The pool is shallow, despite its appearance.

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deceptively

adverb
in a misleading way; "the exam looked deceptively easy" 

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deˈceptively adjective
Example: She is deceptively shy.
Arabic: بِخِداع، بصورَةٍ مُضَلِّلَه
Chinese (Simplified): 骗人地
Chinese (Traditional): 騙人地
Czech: zdánlivě, falešně
Danish: vildledende; bedragerisk
Dutch: bedrieglijk
Estonian: petlikult
Finnish: hämäävän
French: trompeusement
German: trügerisch
Greek: απατηλά
Hungarian: megtévesztően
Icelandic: á villandi hátt; meira en maður heldur
Indonesian: dikira
Italian: ingannevolmente
Japanese: いつわって
Korean: 거짓으로
Latvian: maldinoši
Lithuanian: apgaulingai
Norwegian: bedragersk, villedende
Polish: zwodniczo
Portuguese (Brazil): enganosamente
Portuguese (Portugal): enganadoramente
Romanian: aparent
Russian: обманчиво
Slovak: zdanlivo
Slovenian: varljivo
Spanish: engañosamente
Swedish: bedrägligt, vilseledande
Turkish: aldatıcı (biçimde)
See also: deception, deceptive

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Deceptively

De*cep"tive*ly\, adv. In a manner to deceive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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