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tending or having power to deceive<in his deceptive answer about the vehicle's history, the salesman said that the used car had never been hit by another car>Synonymsbeguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false, misleading, speciousRelated Wordsdevious, guileful, shady, shifty, sly, sneaking, sneaky, trick, tricky, underhand, underhanded; inaccurate, incorrect, wrong; bewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzling; crooked, dishonest, double-dealing, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful; insidious, perfidious, treacherous; artificial, backhanded, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-facedNear Antonymscandid, frank, open, plain; clarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminating; revealing, revelatory; honest, trustworthy, truthfulAntonymsaboveboard, forthright, straightforward
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given to or marked by cheating and deception<a mail-order firm indicted for deceptive business practices>— see dishonest 2
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