deceptive
de·cep·tive
adjective
1.
2.
tending 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”
Origin
From Middle French déceptif, from Latin dēceptīvus, from dēcipiō (“to deceive”).
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