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Definition of Deceptive
1. Adjective. Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true. "A delusory pleasure"
2. Adjective. Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently. "Shoddy business practices"
Similar to: Dishonest, Dishonorable
Derivative terms: Deceive, Deceive, Deceptiveness
Definition of Deceptive
1. a. Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
Definition of Deceptive
1. Adjective. misleading, likely or attempting to deceive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deceptive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deceptive
Literary usage of Deceptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing As a Process by Carol B. Olson (1996)
"Although the explanation for deceptive Definitions was complicated, one of my
students and I had played the game a few times, and we became aware that the ..."
2. Business Law: A Working Manual of Every-day Law by Thomas Conyngton (1920)
"deceptive Statistics The advertisements of some cheap law schools, which have
made much money in this way, give interesting reports of the alleged net ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1866)
"Sometimes this deceptive appearance is present from the first, but more usually
it is produced when the patient begins to use his arm, and if present at ..."
4. The Art Teaching of John Ruskin by William Gershom Collingwood (1891)
"... or what they supposed to be Truth, namely, deceptive Imitation; and the other
that it was Beauty, or what was supposed to be Beauty, namely, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"On Hyaline Cartilage and deceptive appearances produced by Reagents, as observed
in the examination of a Cartilaginous Tumour of the Lower Jaw. ..."
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