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Textual thesaurus for "deceptive"

(adj) shoddy, misleading

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


(adj) delusory

causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

deceptive calm; a delusory pleasure