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
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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.
There is nothing wrong with making money, but are we supposed to be sorry for the inept and obtuse customer care services (ever look at a invoice from a insurance company?) and compassion less “death panels” of the health insurance industry and the thoughtless, cavalier and deceptive practices of the financial dealings on wall street (GS and the Greek economy comes to mind)? Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies.
The lie of the land on the coast can be deceptive. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the best and the brightest are giving up, rejecting businesses based on flimflams and deceptive marketing. Danny Schechter: Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis
My guess is that the DCCC discouraged her from making the kind of strong, straightforward case on the issues she would have been good at and conned or bullied her into running a cagy, deceptive campaign. Opinion Roundup: Who Gets Credit, Rahm Or Netroots?
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has been both clever and deceptive in giving this kind of polysyllabic, clinical name to even mild, transient versions of common ailments as a way of persuading both doctors and patients that their new, potent drugs are essential to our well-being. Dr. Andrew Weil: Let's Take the Stomachache Out of Health Care Reform: One Patient's Story
Appearances prove to be deceptive, though. Times, Sunday Times
Near the audience hall was another immense gathering space with one hundred columns, as well as the large and well-guarded treasury constructed of deceptively plain mud bricks. Alexander the Great
An earlier ad featuring staff -- including chief executive Rob Fyfe -- in body paint said Air New Zealand had 'nothing to hide' about its fares, in contrast to what it called the deceptive pricing of low-cost carriers. Home | Mail Online
His main asset is his pace and it's deceptive pace as well because you don't realise just how quickly he's travelling.
I hesitate to think that the firm deceptively put this out just to attract potential teeny-bopper customers who would fall for it.
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. Robert H. Schuller
The thug strove furiously to clamp his meaty paws around the lighter man's neck, but the deceptive strength of the other's rangy thews held him at bay.
It has the simplicity and deceptive subtlety of that form. Times, Sunday Times
The duduk is a simple instrument; but deceptively so, in that it requires an embouchure and diaphragm of steel plus circular breathing to elicit its haunting, cool sound. Michal Shapiro: Grandfather, Grandson, Grandmasters (Video)
Appearances are (often) deceptive.
If my conversational partner refuses to acknowledge the thing which is taken as a given, then s/he reveals theirself to be either ignorant and/or deceptive; and then intelligent and reasoned conversation is not possible. The difficulty of demonizing the Tea Partiers: less than six degrees of separation
Although the amount of time spent on homework is easily measured, using time as the only barometer for success can be deceptive.
The fundamental argument of those who oppose abortion anywhere is deceptively appealing.
Picture a remote estuary entrance, a day's travel from anywhere civilised, the tide is deceptive as it rushes in and out of the gulf, shifting the sands into deep spots every day.
It's filled with unsupported assertions, deceptive qualifiers, logical fallacies and rhetorical tricks so cheap they would make a trial lawyer blush.
Court observation can, however, be deceptively straightforward, and anyone who spends time in courtrooms quickly becomes aware of its drawbacks.
He varied his point of delivery and had deceptive changes of pace. Times, Sunday Times
Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment.
There was clear, deceptively simple typography in a uniform typeface and a single strong image, often truncated for effect.
Others may use deceptive sales tactics and false positives to scare up sales from confused users.
Mass media is a grazeable prairie of deceptively unfenced pastures.
Federal organizations have been monitoring the Internet for deceptive advertisements, consumer fraud, and other unlawful activities.
The jury will continue deliberations today on whether they are guilty of recklessly making a misleading, false or deceptive promise. Times, Sunday Times
Even PBS's interview program NewsHour, which deceptively bills itself as a news show, draws a reported 3 million viewers a night.
Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance, this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
Ms. Clinton did not quat the last aaccusation, but has used her deceptive responses to support the therory. Obama camp out with new gas tax ad, Clinton camp fires back
Lying is a way of life- – lying is inevitable in everyday life. Lying is a conscious attempt of the mind to protect ourselves, or to advance our self- interest, by distorting the truth or telling deceptive falsehoods. Dr T.P.Chia
These songs have a deceptive lyrical vacuity that hints at greater depths, but leaves them to the listener to consider.
Written in richly described flashbacks that slowly reveal the characters 'almost surreal connections, this deceptively understated novel asks crucial questions about how to live and reconcile history in an atomic age. The Ash Garden: Summary and book reviews of The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock.
It is conceivable, of course, that some parents might have figured out that particular cluster of deceptive behaviours without the aid of this book. Times, Sunday Times
The triumphalism flowed, he notes, from a deceptively simple rationale.
A contrivance is some abstract contortion that is said to describe reality, except that the contrivance comes with a felt emotionality that may invite deeper revelation, or the emotionality may come off as deceptive. Ambiguity Tolerance
His voice is soft, soulful, sincere and holds genuine but deceptive emotion in its easy lilt. The Sun
It is given each year to a person or organization in the US that has used public language that is, in the committee's judgment, deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, or self-contradictory.
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. Robert H. Schuller
In three movements, played without a break, the symphony begins deceptively, as a more-or-less neoclassic toccata.
It's heavy stuff, but heavy needs to either be deceptively light on its feet (ala Deep Purple) or unremorsefully jarring in its very density (a la Black Sabbath).
But his low centre of gravity, immense power and deceptive turn of pace meant that as a defender, he was a formidable beast. Times, Sunday Times
Appearances, however, which have been deceptive before, may again deceive; and the history of nations teams with proofs that when once they have overstepped the bounds of reason, albeit with the purpose of returning when their ends shall have been accomplished, the very events which their own passion has produced frequently raise a barrier against their retreat, and nulla vestigia retrorsum becomes their doom. The Secession Movement in America
Eric the Red, "the only doubtful part of which is the" uniped "episode, a touch of mediaeval superstition so palpable as not to be deceptive. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
fortieth," that landing on the fourth storey where man discovers and picks up the magic key which opens life to its recesses, and reveals its monotonous and deceptive labyrinth; conscious, moreover, of his value, of the importance of his mission, and of the great name he bore, he cared nothing for the opinion of such persons as these. Tartarin On The Alps
The surface had a green hue but its appearance proved deceptive, while swing was modest. Times, Sunday Times
Do you gentlemen find that an amazing kind of distortion and deceptive piece of reasoning?
He caused another scare when he surged into the penalty area, cut the ball back and bent in a deceptive shot.
Some were further guarded from prying eyes by sort of gridirons, politely called balconies, though, since the platform had been forgotten, and only the protecting railings were there hard up against the glass, the name was deceptive. The Good Comrade
The team has made strong statements about drafting a quarterback, but those comments are deceptive.
At face value, the story is deceptively simple - a young girl, Charlotte, goes missing in the woods, and her mother, Dessa, enlists the help of a pilot, Maxine, to aid in the search.
To bone up on the subject, he read the works of a professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose area of research was deceptive political advertising.
Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
His dark honey eyes always reminded Electra of his mother's deceptive eyes.
Six foot tall, slim and with a deceptive unassuming air, his blond hair and cadaverous cheek bones say rampant sex drive packaged as boy next door.
He is deceptively fast and so technically gifted. The Sun
The jury will continue deliberations today on whether they are guilty of recklessly making a misleading, false or deceptive promise. Times, Sunday Times
More info at website of the Brooklyn-based label that released the full-length version, temporaryresidence.com, and at Eluvium/Cooper’s site, eluvium.net, which houses two additional MP3s: the lush, if peculiarly detuned, “Under the Water It Glowed” and the deceptively rudimentary piano piece “Genius and the Thieves,” which sounds like Rufus Wainwright playing a Harold Budd cover. Disquiet » Three Eluvium MP3s
A deceptively fragile and refined appearance belied her dedication and untiring industry in the cause of justice for women.
Both possess blistering pace and deceptive ball skills, along with an instinct for goals when given half a chance.
She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently.
She tried to pretend she didn't know what he meant, but his bantering tone had been deceptive.
More like a liqueur than an aperitif (although it is deceptively sweet), only the unwary would approach it with abandon.
His language is deceptively simple; it is not easy to recreate his elegance and poise.
We work to fool others and equally, because we are on guard against being fooled ourselves, we work hard to detect deceptive behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
He advocates referring to "trial lawyers" as "public-protection attorneys," replacing "taxes" with "membership fees," and generally couching the entire Democratic message in palatable — even deceptive — language in order to simplify large ideas and disguise them behind innocent but powerful-sounding phrases. It Isn't the Message, Stupid
Today it announced the start of legal action alleging misleading and deceptive conduct.
The upload is slow as molasses and in my opinion is a part of their deceptive advertising. The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds
The phrase argumentum ad verecundiam literally means the means ‘the argument from modesty’, and it was John Locke who evidently first used this phrase to refer to a kind of error or deceptive tactic that can be used by one person in discussion with another … Blogginheads Controversy
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. Robert H. Schuller
Like the fabulously deceptive creations of the great landscape gardener Capability Brown, it will speak of wild, untrammelled nature.
If the markdown is from an artificially inflated price, then the advertising is deceptive.
Deceptively "primitivist," with a vivid palette of color, it conveys precisely the intent of its designer, Nick Locke, art director for the feature film "Little Red Wagon. Battery Shots
The surface had a green hue but its appearance proved deceptive, while swing was modest. Times, Sunday Times
The lie of the land on the coast can be deceptive. Times, Sunday Times
So far, no cases of scent mimicry have been reported for food-deceptive species although it occurs in cases of sexual mimicry.
The renunciation of its resolution, then made solemnly and in tears, compels us to regard the actions of its party members as nothing but a deceptive ploy to win public sympathy with the April 15 general elections in mind.
Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment.
The Cornell researchers tackled what they call deceptive opinion spam by commissioning freelance writers on NYT > Home Page
Jane Seymour does an excellent job with the deceptively difficult role of Solitaire, who must be a bewitching beauty but also one who is convincingly sheltered and innocent.
The lie of the land on the coast can be deceptive. Times, Sunday Times
He varied his point of delivery and had deceptive changes of pace. Times, Sunday Times
Such a suit would contend that the pension funds relied on deceptive financial statements in making the loan.
It is conceivable, of course, that some parents might have figured out that particular cluster of deceptive behaviours without the aid of this book. Times, Sunday Times
The lie of the land on the coast can be deceptive. Times, Sunday Times
Such a government Turkey does not have. just as in Mexico-another "borderland" country on the edge of the rich world with which it has a lot in common - Turkey's economic reforms in the 1980s were deceptive. The Sick Man Coughs Again
Control for preexisting beliefs; control for nondeceptive elements of ad. Archive 2009-10-01
The mere hint of evasion or deceptiveness under oath was just too much for him to handle.
And generous with that difference, with a deceptive simplicity of presentation. Times, Sunday Times
The walk up to Atul Ruia's corporate office in Mahalaxmi, a central Mumbai suburb, is rather deceptive. India's Atul Ruia
His voice was deceptively mild.
How ironic, then, that Bush's deceptive subtlety has enabled her to investigate the kind of subject matter even the most brazen hip-hop queen would baulk at covering, such as paedophiliac desire, incest, cradle-snatching and, in the blackly humorous "Heads We're Dancing", the quandary of a woman who realises she's been dancing with Adolf Hitler. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Calculating the angular velocity of the Earth is a deceptively easy task.
And generous with that difference, with a deceptive simplicity of presentation. Times, Sunday Times
Her simple style is deceptive: what she has to say is very profound.
Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance, this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
That would explain why the team tanked deceptively early this season, before suspicion could be aroused.
The opinion identified three ways of proving deceptiveness under (a) (1) (B): survey evidence, evidence of actual confusion, and “argument based on an inference arising from a judicial comparison of the claims and the context of their use in the marketplace.” Archive 2009-06-01
Sarah Karnasiewicz on Lunch Break has a baker's guide to classic molded holiday cookies - springerle, gingerbread and frankfurter brenten - that are drop-dead gorgeous and deceptively easy to make. Wunderbar Cookies
Obviously no corporate lobbying organization is actually in favor of democracy in the workplace, as their name deceptively implies. President Obama: Small 'Change' and the Mendacity of 'Hope'
But flagrant fabrications such as "Obama liking Reagan's policies" hurts not only Obama in terms of voters who may believe it, and Hillary, for those who don't, but it hurts the Democrats because it represents the kind of brutish, deceptive politics Americans now routinely hate. Obama Winning Spin War Over Who's Victim In Campaign
Time is always available for politicians to endlessly repeat their deceptive claims, however.
The call is deceptive because the deadline has already passed for mail-in registrations for North Carolina's May 6 primary. Robo-Cop - Swampland - TIME.com
Some snakes move with deceptive speed .
Here called Trio A Pressured #3, danced by the seven White Oak company members, its original soundlessness and famously uninflected movement - a long, deceptively simple, unpunctuated phrase - have been seriously compromised.
It is a fable recalled by a lonely man who lies between the clumps of grass on the sands by a river (the scene looks deceptively lyrical), like a survivor washed ashore after a shipwreck.
Through self-deceptive language we nourish the illusion that death is a matter of choice, and therefore somehow meaningful.
We move on to a variation of dodgeball and it's deceptively exhausting. Times, Sunday Times
His finger traced a path to the south-west, navigating mountains and rivers with deceptive ease.
We work to fool others and equally, because we are on guard against being fooled ourselves, we work hard to detect deceptive behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Today it announced the start of legal action alleging misleading and deceptive conduct.
Varro E. Tyler became dismayed by the proliferation of ‘inaccurate and deceptive information’ and wrote the first edition of The Honest Herbal in 1982 for the general public.
The jury will continue deliberations today on whether they are guilty of recklessly making a misleading, false or deceptive promise. Times, Sunday Times
He later confessed to his deceptive scheme, telling police he wanted to fake the insurance claim and use the money to finance another trip back to Thailand.
Good and honest people are equally vulnerable to being hypocritical and deceptive when self- interests are involved – sometimes even honest people have to pay the price of acting hypocritically or unscrupulously. Dr T.P.Chia
I sing "Suzie is a Headbanger" in deceptively empty streets. Poetry and Healing
Any deceptiveness in our ideas derives from their confusedness and is the result of our misuse of freedom. Antoine Arnauld
Lying is a way of life- – lying is inevitable in everyday life. Lying is a conscious attempt of the mind to protect ourselves, or to advance our self- interest, by distorting the truth or telling deceptive falsehoods. Dr T.P.Chia
Consumer groups are lobbying Congress to include better protection for credit card holders, demanding legislation to prevent what they call unjustified interest charges and deceptive practices, especially in light of the massive financial bailout now being considered. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
According to the present mode of reckoning Mr Phillips with his sixteen seems I mention him because his unrecovered is the greatest to do more but the reckoning is deceptive. Elisha Mitchell's Private Notebook, 1818-1847 [Containing Miscellaneous Comments on Mathematics, Musicology, Electricity, Natural Sciences, and History and Personal Accounts and Notes on Readings and Letters Received]
Framing the argument as though there was no difference between the 1-Click patent and the patent for a new molecule that cost a billion dollars to invent is a deceptive practice. blog comments powered by Disqus Patent madness : #comments
But his low centre of gravity, immense power and deceptive turn of pace meant that as a defender, he was a formidable beast. Times, Sunday Times
But the shimmering white minaret, and the impressive dome, designed to shelter 3,500 worshippers, are deceptive.
Cherubic and deceptively guileless, she used "humour as a dodge, intimacy as a smoke screen", Ms Salomon notes.
Like the fabulously deceptive creations of the great landscape gardener Capability Brown, it will speak of wild, untrammelled nature.
The apparently objective, ideologically neutral tone of Chronique de septembre is deceptive, however.
Juliette Blightman deals in deceptive banalities that, through meticulously selective stage management, conjure moments of reverie on the time-honoured, irrepressible passing of time. This week's new exhibitions
For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus, like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception.
The portal tomb itself is deceptive. A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
Any deceptive practice is a bad method. Christianity Today
The Trade Practices Act is basically about misleading or deceptive conduct, or unconscionable conduct.
Miller, who also co-produced the movie, describes the shoot as ‘deceptively difficult.’
On Golden Pond tells the deceptively simple tale of one family's summer.
Both players attempt to control the space by confusing the opponent with feints and deceptive moves.
Those nondeceptive alternatives seem mighty hard to come by. 6,300 Dupes Want to Know: Why'd You Lie?
His black comedy and his portmanteau romcom Trivial Matters are both biting, complex, visually stunning and highly idiosyncratic works., his latest project, looks like a deceptively bouncy horror comedy. New York Press
He had exquisite technique that was matched by searing pace and deceptive strength. The Sun
The terrain is often deceptively steep .
And it didn't help any that she was probably wearing something that would make his grandmother faint underneath her deceptively modest robe.
We were all surely alert to the subliminal messages in the deceptive modesty of his glances.
Is everything online turning into the best man wins, the one that figures out how to use deceptive practices or sugar-coat reality to the point of making your teeth ache just to make a buck?
Some are large, others little more than snapshots, hung in a disarming and deceptively casual manner.
The fearfully serious event inspired this bright and deceptively playful assemblage.
Spokesman for Cumbria Constabulary Mike Head warned that lake waters could be dangerously deceptive.
Hassan, who's written two books on combating mind control, says he's not objecting to Scientology's beliefs -- he's objecting to its practices, including what he calls deceptive recruitment. Chicago Reader
Sarah Karnasiewicz on Lunch Break has a baker's guide to classic molded holiday cookies - springerle, gingerbread and frankfurter brenten - that are drop-dead gorgeous and deceptively easy to make. Wunderbar Cookies
We looked the part, but appearances came be deceptive, as I was soon to discover.
The house benefits from a deceptively spacious kitchen .
A pueblo city that scouts had described as ringed with gilded ramparts proved to be built of mere mud and clay, which happened to glimmer deceptively in the setting sun. Colossus
Could catch a few defences cold with his deceptive pace after only showing his potential in bursts at City. The Sun
JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: "Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2008
Is everything online turning into the best man wins, the one that figures out how to use deceptive practices or sugar-coat reality to the point of making your teeth ache just to make a buck?
About 11 million cars worldwide were fitted with the deceptive software. Times, Sunday Times
Once again, she was killed the day Katrina struck, so Broussard pointing the finger at the feds is deceptive. Correcting the facts and missing the truth « BuzzMachine
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. Robert H. Schuller
Borland has a sidearm delivery that can be deceptive.
Out here the ocean feels wild and untamed, but appearances can be deceptive. Times, Sunday Times
People who possess a negative character and a narcissistic personality tend to be more deceiving and deceptive. Dr T.P.Chia
Elizabeth continued with deceptive mildness.
But the fondness of the characterisation is deceptive: tonight, Brodkin never lets Nelson transcend the stereotype, never suggests that a sarf London geezer might have broader horizons than we expect. Lee Nelson's Well Good Tour – review
Turns out, "Choral" is a record label feint, a sonorous if deceptive introduction to the New York duo that was never intended to represent their oeuvre. Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
Apparently free-flowing, deceptively indisciplined and associative, this is one of the book's most experimental and, as a result, arresting pieces. The Times Literary Supplement
Here, in a Toussaint arrangement that is the soul of the term spot-on, trumpeter Nicholas Payton shows just how deeply he understands this happy, jaunty number in a free, easy, yet deceptively commanding performance of the song's famous changes. Stereophile RSS Feed
Any time the poor-choicers denounce us for our terrorism, just call them on their vulturism: their inflated, overheated and deceptive rhetoric designed to manipulate the public, and which profits from the shooting of an abortionist. Poor-choicers engage in vulturism
A blogger has caught out the The New York Times in a bit of deceptive reporting.
From July 1, fines for deceptively labelling the wrong species will increase from $3,000 to a maximum of $275,000.
The new A-class range features both five and three-door models which it labels deceptively with Saloon and Coupe designations, boasting a completely new look designed to distinguish the new model from its controversial predecessor. Australian Car Advice | News Blog
It does not resolve to the deceptive motion at the submediant sonority until the final eighth note in the alto voice, and then only very briefly in a highly syncopated rhythmic environment.
College mates of Taylor will recall the deceptiveness of this outward appearance. Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity
It is conceivable, of course, that some parents might have figured out that particular cluster of deceptive behaviours without the aid of this book. Times, Sunday Times
All three retread familiar themes and narratives by their respective filmmakers, and use an exact, refined visual style that is unfussy and deceptively simple.
Lying is a way of life- – lying is inevitable in everyday life. Lying is a conscious attempt of the mind to protect ourselves, or to advance our self- interest, by distorting the truth or telling deceptive falsehoods. Dr T.P.Chia
I have iterated the term ‘story’ of Ray Schmidt to reflect the film's deceptive simplicity.
Once again I do not consider that he has any prospect of establishing that the entry in the log is in any way false or deceptive.
Brown Canon III for The Wall Street Journal Students practice the veronica, a deceptively simple pass in which the bullfighter attempts to hold his ground and draw the charging bull through the pivoting cape. Learn to Be a Matador
They are patronizing and condescending to their clients (not to mention deceptive).
less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance
Its steering is direct and at times feels deceptively quicker than the 2.7 lock to lock turns may suggest.
the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm
It’s a bit awe-inspiring to be confronted with a number like that — a number far more comprehensible than yesterday’s deceptively complex statement about the amount of data we’re producing daily.
Lying is a way of life- – lying is inevitable in everyday life. Lying is a conscious attempt of the mind to protect ourselves, or to advance our self- interest, by distorting the truth or telling deceptive falsehoods. Dr T.P.Chia
And herein lurks the deceptively soft, and indeed ever-welcoming, bosom of Nanny State.
He is a deceptive film-maker, part polemicist, part aesthete.
The central character is a deceptively emollient senior figure in a Conservative Government.
Therefore, I favour such deceptive tactics as dragging a small, weighted hook wrapped in colourful wool across the sandy bottom and gaffing the unsuspecting honeymooners mid-coitus.
However, he is simply content to just play it out on his deceptively simple levels of broad comedy and syrupy sentiment.
Appearances are deceptive in these restaurants, which look like dingy pubs from the outside.
Cutting school funding using deceptive practices, like declaring catsup is a vegetable? Pawlenty: GOP's 'clearly' been damaged
His response gives an idea of the level of deceptiveness, denial and sheer manipulativeness afflicting mainstream media and politics.

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