deceptive
adjective
apt or tending to deceive.
deceptiveness
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a word derived from
deceptive.
Example Sentences
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"The omission and/or deceptiveness of this essential information" in advertising could influence consumers' decisions and expose them, "minors in particular", to the risk of unknowingly damaging their health, it said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 2023
I can’t feel much anger toward Santos for his deceptiveness, just a bit of sorrow.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
This was, I learned, typical of the prewar intelligence estimates: They amounted to semi-educated guesses built on previous and seldom-challenged guesses that always assumed the worst and imagined deceptiveness in everything the Iraqi regime did.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2020
In a recent report, Boise State University professor and polygraph expert Charles Honts concluded police used the polygraph as a “psychological rubber hose” rather than as a tool to detect deceptiveness.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2016
Muriel observed that its shoulders fitted to the shoulders of the wearer and had none of the deceptiveness of the padded shoulders to which she was once familiar in American coats.
From Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman
