Deceptive - Definition
deceptive
adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to
believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory
pleasure" [syn: deceptive, delusory]
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: deceptive,
misleading, shoddy]