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deceptive English

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deceptive

If something is deceptive, it tries to make people believe something that is not true; it misleads. He is a deceptive person. I would not trust him.

deceptive

(= delusory) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true deceptive calm a delusory pleasure (= 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

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Simple sentences

Appearance is deceptive.
Appearances can be deceptive.
Looks can be deceptive.
Judge people not by age, but by behavior. Years are deceptive.

Movie subtitles

Well, it's getting late. There'll be a chill in the air. These tropical nights are deceptive.
I have a feeling that beneath the deceptive exterior, he is profoundly shrewd, subtle.
None too pretty, and all deceptive.
Creature weak and deceptive!
But she is deceptive.
That feeling can be very deceptive.
Feelings can be deceptive.
She has a profile. of deceptive purity.
During its numerous interruptions, the defense has maintained, by means of absurd and deceptive argument, that this case, being tried under criminal law, is actually a political trial!
You attack the man and provoke his fall. with.with your deceptive..
Can I trust the deceptive beauty of life?
The florid beauty of the anemone can be deceptive.
Pity is deceptive and tearful.
But despite that, she assisted this deceptive peace treaty.
My passing through will break the beam and automatically open the highly deceptive trap door behind me, of course.
I wouldn't be too sure Holmes. Ashes are deceptive you know?
These tropical nights are deceptive.
Then his appearance is extremely deceptive, Mr. Enderby.
Their deceptive act didn't work.
Appearances are deceptive.
Do you think you could be equally deceptive in the guise of one not quite so young as that?
You think I'm deceptive?
Deceptive?
You are deceptive.
He really knows how to do a deceptive talk.
Cool and innocent and deceptive.
Yes, you know, my image is deceptive.
Feelings can be deceptive. So what if they are?
Funny how deceptive It is a fantasy.
To make the Fritzes believe that you're not going anywhere, Chief of General Stuff prepared a deceptive order about our troops going over to defensive actions.
But effective participation. in this deceptive entity. requires this participation be recognized as truthful.
Appearances can be deceptive.
As to my reputation, if consideration should be given to something so deceptive, i can vouch for it.
A deceptive balance of power exists between the Emperor the Congress of Royal Houses, and the supposedly impartial Spacing Guild with its invulnerable monopoly on interstellar transport.
You fucking deceptive.
All this is. - is pretty deceptive.
My charm's really deceptive.
You're deceptive.

News and current affairs

The gullible Sancho Panza was meant to adopt the revolution's deceptive dogma as entitlement to wage a brutal war against all.
But appearances are deceptive.
To be sure, the impression is deceptive.
The impression of a generation on permanent holiday is deceptive in another respect.
Comparisons to the Great Depression are also deceptive, because the economy today is so different in so many ways.
Since then, evidence has mounted not only that there were no weapons of mass destruction, but that the American and British governments provided deceptive, distorted, and misleading information.
But this impression is deceptive, since the German state, through the built-in flexibility of its extensive social-welfare system, already contributes to stabilizing the world economy.
Belarus seems beyond redemption, but appearances are deceptive.
But this metric is very deceptive.
One is North Korea, whose recent behavior has been clever and deceptive.
Impassive capital now ignores deceptive market signals, and the liquidation of untenable mal-investment percolates through the system as immutable time preferences prevail.
World leaders appear partly ignorant and partly deceptive in responding to the allegations.
The apparent (and deceptive) lull in the fighting in Syria has contributed to this shift.
To travel through urban China today is in many ways a deceptive experience.
So, while Latin America may continue to weather the global economic storm rather well, the region's diplomatic peace and quiet is deceptive.
But, in view of the political volatility of recent years, this semblance of stability and constitutional regularity is deceptive.
But appearances proved to be deceptive.
In 2002, Western financial institutions were thought to be wizards at managing risk and allocating capital; today, we see that they are wizards at market manipulation and other deceptive practices.

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