Deceptive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECEPTIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• tending to deceive, also DECEPTORY
• giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading
• likely or designed to deceive
• Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• tending or having power to deceiv; misleading

Words related to DECEPTIVE

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Words that contain DECEPTIVE

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How to use DECEPTIVE in a sentence

• There is surely no other church with such a ponderous exterior that is so completely deceptive as to its internal aspect, for St.
• Yet you must forgive me if I say that none of us know one another, and, likewise, that appearances are often deceptive.
• For our natural instinct to refer them to objects without us might well be deceptive.
• The lights are out, and it looks as if the farmer and his family were sleeping soundly, but, as Jones says, appearances are sometimes deceptive.
• The heights and distances are most deceptive, partly on account of the crystal clearness of the air, and partly because of the magnitude of everything in proportion.
• It was a burning building, the flames showing so strongly that, aware as he was of the deceptive nature of such a light, he knew it was no more than a mile away.
• My brothers have been as deceptive as a brook, As the channel of brooks that disappear.
• It proved, however, to be the most complicated of all in its internal arrangements, and its quiet was therefore a little deceptive.
• That one may be hopelessly lost in the deceptive flatwoods she dismissed with a laugh.
• Incidentally they are mighty deceptive to wander about in.
• The darkness added to the difficulties of the way, for, although the sky was now clear, the gloom was deceptive, and things distant seemed near.
• Many will remember while I speak, the names of the gifted of their species, the degraded men of genius who were the victims of these deceptive influences.
• She took the threads, coloured them one and all with that deceptive dye of the imagination, and wove a romance out of the materials of a stern reality.
• Fortune had favoured neither side when, as the night wore on, the moon rose and threw a deceptive glamour over the field of battle.
• The deceptive idea of peaceable secession first drew them within the lines of the open traitor.
• The genius of him who said, in our journey to the other world the common road is the safest, was cowardly as deceptive, and therefore opposed to sound philosophy.
• Its absolute simplicity is deceptive as to the immense labour it must have cost a single man to work it out.
• Pearse spoke of the comparative calm which marked the closing days of 1899 as deceptive, he was right, and events promptly proved him so.
• Its line of movement, however, being oblique instead of direct, was so deceptive as to induce Ardan to flatter himself that they might still reach the lunar surface.
• Now the native is always as civil as he is deceptive.
• The infantry is most deceptive in appearance, but the ability of the French to march and attack has never been surpassed.
• There were lights in the windows of all the three houses, and, like all such lights, they promised, here in a specially deceptive manner, something cosy inside the walls.
• Here the flight must be more rapid and, above all, less deceptive than the purely mystic fancy of Plato.
• The atmosphere was deceptive, making this plain seem far away and then close at hand.
• But the Darwinian doctrine is more dangerous because more deceptive.
• They count and are not defined, and the side of them that is not deceptive is the one that comes forward.
• The first that came to her was the picture of a towering mountain, conspicuous not so much for its actual loftiness as for its deceptive appearance of great height.
• Experience seems to have taught them that appearances are deceptive in this matter, and they look about for the spring by which the trap works before they will touch the bait.

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