Deceptive

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  • adjective. Deceiving or tending to deceive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to deceive; apt or having power to mislead or impress false opinions: as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions.
  • adjective. a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
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  • adjective. misleading, likely or attempting to deceive
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
  • adjective. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
    • Word Usage
    "This comes soon after Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, urged we stop using the term 'war on terror,' which he called deceptive and misleading."
    cross-reference
    deceptive cadence  
    Equivalent
    dishonest  dishonorable  unreal  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    contraceptive  perceptive  receptive  unreceptive  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alluring  deceitful  delusive  devious  dishonest  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Barmecidal  Barmecide  aberrant  abroad  adrift  
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