deceptive

How To Use deceptive In A Sentence

• My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
• Complaints against DirecTV soar after A.G. charges "deceptive" practices AirlineReporter. com: PICS AND VIDEO OF BOEING 787 DREAMLINER'S FIRST FLIGHT Aerospace: Boeing 787 first flight a key milestone, not end of road Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
• In fact, it took a highly deceptive sales campaign to get Americans to support the invasion, and even so, voters were never as solidly behind the war as America's political and pundit elite.
• It is deceptively big with neat bedrooms, a large kitchen with dining room, two sitting rooms and a playroom. Times, Sunday Times
• The secretiveness and deceptiveness of the patients made the diagnosis difficult for those who were unaware of this tendency.
• Here he pauses, then continues, sounding like a cook admitting that a recipe is deceptively simple.
• Passenger jets often look deceptively slow and graceful as they cruise over the clouds.
• For the manufacturer to insist the Swiss Diamond pans contain no Teflon whatsoever when it is made primarily from polytetrafluoroethylene, the chemical widely known as Teflon, is extremely deceptive. Consumer fraud alert: Swiss Diamond non-stick cookware made with same chemical as Teflon
• The surface had a green hue but its appearance proved deceptive, while swing was modest. Times, Sunday Times
• At present the public have few reliable ways of detecting whether reporting is deceptive or not.