deceptive

Words with a similar base: deceptive

'deceptive'

[deceptive.s.01] as in: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

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Examples:
deceptive calm
a delusory pleasure

'deceptive'

[deceptive.s.02] as in: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

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Examples:
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