Deceptive
41deceptive — adjective giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading. Derivatives deceptiveness noun …
42deceptive — a. Deceitful, deceiving, delusive, illusive, illusory, misleading, fallacious, false …
43deceptive — adj fallacious, illusory, illusive, spurious, factitious; deceiving, misleading, evasive, elusive, dodgy, shifty, slippery; fraudulent, false, deceitful, hollow; catchy, sophistical, casuistic; specious, bogus, sham, counterfeit, pseudo, mock;… …
44deceptive — de·cep·tive …
45deceptive — adjective Syn: misleading, confusing, illusory, distorted, ambiguous …
46deceptive — de•cep•tive [[t]dɪˈsɛp tɪv[/t]] adj. 1) likely to deceive; capable of deception 2) perceptually misleading • Etymology: 1605–15; < ML de•cep′tive•ly, adv. de•cep′tive•ness, n …
47deceptive — /dəˈsɛptɪv/ (say duh septiv) adjective apt or tending to deceive. {New Latin dēceptīvus} –deceptively, adverb –deceptiveness, noun …
48deceptive — adj. apt to deceive; easily mistaken for something else or as having a different quality. Derivatives: deceptively adv. deceptiveness n. Etymology: OF deceptif ive or LL deceptivus (as DECEPTION) …
49deceptive cadence — Music. a cadence consisting of a dominant harmony followed by a resolution to a harmony other than the tonic. * * * …
50deceptive advertising — noun an exaggerated advertising that is attempting to deceive …