Search Result:deceptive
KK Pronunciation
〔 dIˋsєptIv 〕
Pronunciation
〔 diˊseptiv 〕
Overview of adj deceptive
The adj deceptive has 2 senses
- deceptive, delusory -- (causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure")
- deceptive, misleading, shoddy -- (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")