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He knows he was lucky that way; but also that appearances can be deceptive.

“The language on the ballot is deceptive and deliberately so,” says Herron.

Dig deeper, though, and these tactics start to look somewhat deceptive.

Their opponents suggested that the labels, even if they were accurate, were fundamentally deceptive.

The makers of wildly popular energy shot 5-hour Energy are being sued by three states for deceptive advertising.

Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it is deceptive.

All passions are deceptive; they conceal themselves as much as possible from others and from themselves as well.

Below him for a hundred and fifty feet the gravel was of the same hard, deceptive consistency.

The boys now realized how deceptive wind and water viewed from a distance always are.

"Sure," grinned Stanton, with all the deceptive, undauntable optimism of the Just-Awakened.

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On this page you'll find 120 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deceptive, such as: ambiguous, deceitful, disingenuous, false, fraudulent, and misleading.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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