deceptive

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true (Freq. 2)
- deceptive calm
- a delusory pleasure
• Syn:
delusory
• Similar to:
unreal
• Derivationally related forms:
delude (for: delusory), deceive, deceptiveness
2. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
- the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm
- deliberately deceptive packaging
- a misleading similarity
- statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading
- shoddy business practices
• Syn:
misleading, shoddy
• Similar to:
dishonest, dishonorable
• Derivationally related forms:
deceive, deceptiveness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  misleading, shoddy, delusory