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Adjective: deceptive  di'sep-tiv
  1. Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
    "deceptive calm"
    - delusory
     
  2. Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
    "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"
    - misleading, shoddy

See also: deceive, deceptively, deceptiveness, dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], unreal

Encyclopedia: Deceptive

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