What is the meaning of deceptive?

adjective

  • Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true.
    • usage: "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
  • Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently.
    • usage: "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"
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