deceptively

adverb

as in falsely

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Recent Examples of deceptively Earlier this year, Carlile played the song for Morissette herself, at the induction ceremony for the Songwriters Hall of Fame, screaming the deceptively tricky track with furious abandon. — Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026 The rest of the Cambria isn’t bad, either, including the shops and galleries along Main Street (which is deceptively long) and the piney slopes above. — Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 The museum is deceptively large inside, absolutely stuffed with items. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 Genesis, which commissioned the short to mark the centennial, came to her with a deceptively simple brief. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 The melody came deceptively easy, but everything else would prove difficult. — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026 Repurposing Still Has to Prove Itself Familiarity can make repurposed drugs sound deceptively simple. — Emma Clapp, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 The Australian singer-songwriter seeks to strike a balance between life’s contradictions, desires and messes through raw lyrics, deceptively relaxed jangle rock and woozy folk-pop. — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 They are known as optimal stopping problems, and at their heart sits a deceptively simple question. — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceptively
  1. falsely
  2. artfully
  3. deceitfully
  4. dishonestly
  5. artificially
  6. unnaturally
  7. cannily
  8. hypocritically
Adverb
  • One Discord user posted a threat to hand out hundreds of fliers at the store’s physical Sonny Angel launch event later that morning, falsely claiming that owners supported ICE to discourage would-be shoppers.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The health secretary also appeared on national television eating french fries cooked in beef tallow while falsely suggesting that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine causes more deaths than measles and that the protection from the vaccine wanes.
    — Demetre Daskalakis, STAT, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of falsely
Adverb
  • The rear view resolves nicely with two tidily tucked exhaust tips and artfully sculpted surfacing.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2026
  • This shift inspires a fresh collection of cocktail ideas, artfully blending vibrant summer fruits like pineapple, peach, and grapefruit with autumnal notes of cranberry and maraschino cherry.
    — John Kell, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of artfully
Adverb
  • Jacob goes to Isaac with this hairy disguise, deceitfully announces himself as Esau, and obtains his father’s blessing—much to the chagrin of his brother.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
  • To help fill their coffers even more, the lobbyists deceitfully expanded the definition of those notch years to include everyone born through 1926.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026
Definition of deceitfully
Adverb
  • This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026
  • In that lawsuit, State Farm said that the record only showed a disagreement over the cause of roof damage, and that there was no evidence the company had acted dishonestly.
    — Michael Copley, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of dishonestly
Adverb
  • The former’s close pursuit of Verstappen on his set strategy meant the Dutchman couldn’t play games and force Norris down the order, as Verstappen needed to win the title by slowing his pace artificially.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Authorities have deployed more than 50 aircraft for both cloud-seeding — the attempt to artificially simulate rain — and water-bombing operations, according to Reuters.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of artificially
Adverb
  • Flies buzz over the rotting carcass, which is riven by claw marks so unnaturally deep that no one can determine whomauledit.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In his view, the goal isn’t to lift Klotho levels unnaturally but to correct a shortage in our bodies.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of unnaturally
Adverb
  • In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.
    — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Shein, which built its empire—seemingly overnight—on $5 tops and $10 dresses that cannily kept pace with rapidly shifting trends, did not respond to a request for comment.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of cannily
Adverb
  • Takeshita came across a vaunted screwdriver in the ring as Don Callis hypocritically called him a degenerate.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Trump hypocritically voted by mail himself in a recent Florida special election.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of hypocritically

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