How to Use deceptive in a Sentence

deceptive

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• In all the best ways, there isn’t much about Mike Hilton that isn’t deceptive.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• The pickpockets are called the Four Guns, a name as deceptive as their tactics.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• Since, again, they’re not shown until late in the purchasing process, the fees feel even more deceptive.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2023
• The group alleges Boeing led Ten Oaks down a deceptive path in a last-ditch effort to buy time and keep low prices.
  — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024
• True to crypto’s form, even that ad was somewhat deceptive.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2023
• The idea was to trap once, then retreat into their base man-to-man against the Princeton offense’s deceptive array of back cuts, post rubs and slipped screens.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
• In both cases, the FTC relied on a law against unfair or deceptive practices.
  — Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
• The shape and the four-color design do look basic, but the simplicity is deceptive.
  — WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
• And so along with the European image of the shape-shifting and deceptive Jew came the companion image of the Jew as farseeing and noble sage.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Consumer advocates have long railed against the deceptive practice of tacking on the hidden resort fees at the last-minute.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2023
• The truth is, these types of deceptive emails aren't really coming from those addresses.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
• However, the gift-buying frenzy of Black Friday may be a bit deceptive.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The polygraph did not go well, Andrew said — the results suggested he was being deceptive.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Equally deceptive is a brilliantly hued persimmon with a wick for a stem.
  — Ella Riley-Adams Angela Koh Jameson Montgomery Jameson Montgomery Tom Delavan, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Her trial for deceptive business practices is set to begin next month.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• And for years, Donald Trump engaged in deceptive business practices and tremendous fraud.
  — Ben Protess, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Some outfits function in legal but deceptive ways, Roundy notes.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• The bill also aims to block the use of deceptive websites and other attempts by scammers to pose as legitimate sellers.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• The argument was that that kind of work was inherently deceptive.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• But labels are deceptive, writes critic Michael Phillips.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• In the deceptive calm before the final storm, Amy returns to her natural hair colour and reassuring neutrals, like a white cutout dress by Rachel Comey.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Joe whiffed on Wicks’ next three pitches following the mound visit, recording his first big-league strikeout with a deceptive changeup.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• But as his former allies on the left wing of his party have discovered, appearances can be deceptive.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The spaces are laid out as elegantly, and with the same deceptive simplicity, as the rooms and doorways within the paintings themselves.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
• The drug, with its deceptive disguises, has shattered families across North Texas.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Some of the videos are deceptive while others, wrongly purporting to be from the war zone, are outright disinformation.
  — Brian Stelter, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
• In the deceptive calm before the final storm, Amy returns to her natural hair color and reassuring neutrals, like a white cutout dress by Rachel Comey.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Its relatively slim profile is deceptive as the Mars 03 is a real monster.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Yet the appearance of prosperity is deceptive, even at home.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
• Prosecutors said nearly 5,000 people texted the number shown in the deceptive images, adding that the images stated they had been paid for by the Clinton campaign and had been viewed by people in the New York City area.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024