deceptive

deceptive
de·cep·tive /di-'sep-tiv/ adj: tending or having capacity to deceive
deceptive trade practices compare fraudulent, misleading

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

deceptive
I Adjective artificial, beguiling, bogus, calculated to give a false impression, camouflaged, cheating, collusive, counterfeit, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, delusive, delusory, designing, disguised, dishonest, disingenuous, double dealing, fallacious, false, feigned, fraudulent, illusive, illusory, impostrous, indirect, insidious, insincere, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, oblique, obliquitous, pretended, prevaricating, scheming, seeming, sham, slippery, sly, sneaky, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spurious, subdolous, tricky, underhanded, untrue, wily associated concepts: deceptive acts, deceptive advertising, deceptive practice, deceptively misdescriptive, deceptively similar II index artificial, assumed (feigned), collusive, colorable (specious), delusive, dishonest, disingenuous, equivocal, evasive, fallacious, false (inaccurate), false (not genuine), fraudulent, illusory, imitation, insidious, lying, machiavellian, meretricious, ostensible, sly, specious, spurious, subtle (insidious), surreptitious, untrue, untrustworthy

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

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  • Deceptive — De*cep tive, a. [Cf. F. d[ e]ceptif. See {Deceive}.] Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. [1913 Webster] Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • deceptive — 1610s, from Fr. deceptif (late 14c.), from M.L. deceptivus, from decept , pp. stem of L. decipere (see DECEIVE (Cf. deceive)). Earlier in this sense was deceptious (c.1600), from Fr. deceptieux, from M.L. deceptiosus, from deceptionem. Related:… …   Etymology dictionary

  • deceptive — *misleading, delusory, delusive Analogous words: specious, *plausible, colorable: *false, wrong Contrasted words: genuine, *authentic, veritable, bona fide: true, *real, actual …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • deceptive — [adj] dishonest ambiguous, astucious, beguiling, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, imposturous, indirect,… …   New thesaurus

  • deceptive — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ giving an impression different from the true one …   English terms dictionary

  • deceptive — [dē sep′tiv, disep′tiv] adj. [Fr déceptif < LL deceptivus: see DECEIVE & IVE] deceiving or intended to deceive deceptively adv. deceptiveness n …   English World dictionary

  • deceptive — de|cep|tive [dıˈseptıv] adj 1.) something that is deceptive seems to be one thing but is in fact very different ▪ Some snakes move with deceptive speed (=move faster than you think or expect) . ▪ Gwen s students may look angelic, but appearances… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • deceptive — adj. VERBS ▪ be ADVERB ▪ highly, very ▪ dangerously PHRASES ▪ can be deceptive …   Collocations dictionary

  • deceptive — UK [dɪˈseptɪv] / US adjective 1) something that is deceptive seems very different from the way it really is appearances can be deceptive: The hotel looked nice but appearances can be deceptive. 2) trying to trick someone by telling them something …   English dictionary

  • deceptive — [dɪˈseptɪv] adj 1) if something is deceptive, it seems very different from the way it really is a deceptive calmness in his voice[/ex] 2) if someone is being deceptive, they trick other people by telling them something that is not true deceptive… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

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