deceptive

  • (s) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
    • deceptive calm
    • a delusory pleasure
    delusory,
  • (s) 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
    misleading, shoddy,

Synonyms

delusory misleading shoddy

Words of close approximity

deception
deceptively deceptiveness