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Deceptive

//dɪˈsɛp.tɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Likely or attempting to deceive.

    "deceptive practices"

Adjective
  1. 1
    designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently wordnet
  2. 2
    causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French déceptif, from Latin dēceptīvus, from dēcipiō (“I deceive”).

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