| 单词 | deceptive |
| 释义 | deceptive (once / 2149 pages) adj Something that's deceptive is not what it seems. A deceptive person will lead you to believe something other than the truth. Of course, I would never be deceptive when explaining the word deceptive. If someone tells you that “appearances can be deceptive,” they mean you should look closely at your surroundings because the truth might not be obvious. You might see a connection between the verb to deceive and the adjective deceptive, so you are on to something. If you deceive someone, you are being deceptive. Is it ok to be deceptive when you're planning a surprise party? WORD FAMILYdeceptive: deceptively, deceptiveness+/deceive: deceived, deceiver, deceives, deceiving, deception, deceptive, undeceive/deceiver: deceivers/deceiving: deceivingly/deception: deceptions, self-deception/undeceive: undeceived, undeceives, undeceiving USAGE EXAMPLESThe Deceptive Bike Box. A mild sensation online, this object from the oft-neglected packaging category may be the year’s most cunning design solution. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) The administration was deceptive about the motives for the 2012 Benghazi attack. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) They want the FDA to require plant-based products to adopt a name other than milk, which they say is deceptive. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1adj designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm deliberately deceptive packaging Syn misleading, shoddy dishonest, dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive 2adj causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true deceptive calm Syn delusory unreal not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary |
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