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"Deceptive" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Appearance is deceptive.
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Magical are the straight lines in how they perturb the curved ones, aggravate their distortion and make them look more zigzagged, revealing their deceptive appearance.
Judge people not by age, but by behavior. Years are deceptive.
Appearances can be deceptive.
Tom is being deliberately deceptive.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
It was deceptive.
The relative calm that we've experienced in the last few years is deceptive.
I think it's very deceptive.
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deceptive practices
Appearances can be deceptive.
[…] others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species […] and Martinus Delrio the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;
[…] at the opening of the campaign, the French, after various deceptive attempts on different places, suddenly invested Tournay.
1846, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, London: John W. Parker, 2nd ed., 1847, Preliminary Essay, Chapter 2, p. 10, language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes
[…] it is characteristic of TB that many of its symptoms are deceptive—liveliness that comes from enervation, rosy cheeks that look like a sign of health but come from fever—and an upsurge of vitality may be a sign of approaching death.
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