Associations to the word «Deceptive»
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Adjective
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Wiktionary
DECEPTIVE, adjective. Misleading, likely or attempting to deceive.
DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING, noun. An exaggerated advertising that is attempting to deceive
DECEPTIVE CADENCE, noun. (music) a falling cadence in which the ear expects the a dominant chord to resolve to the tonic, but resolves to something else (usually a submediant chord) instead.
DECEPTIVE CADENCES, noun. Plural of deceptive cadence
Dictionary definition
DECEPTIVE, adjective. Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure".
DECEPTIVE, adjective. 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".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.