How to Use deceptive in a Sentence

deceptive

adjective

• By its very design, laundering is vastly complex and deceptive—and that can be exaggerated when crypto is used.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
• In all the best ways, there isn’t much about Mike Hilton that isn’t deceptive.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• The pickpockets are called the Four Guns, a name as deceptive as their tactics.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• The best example of this deceptive simplicity is the star of the dessert menu—the kouign-amann ice cream.
  — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 22 July 2022
• Since, again, they’re not shown until late in the purchasing process, the fees feel even more deceptive.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2023
• The group alleges Boeing led Ten Oaks down a deceptive path in a last-ditch effort to buy time and keep low prices.
  — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024
• The twelfth house’s realm can be both receptive AND deceptive.
  — ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• The ads are so deceptive that at least one Alaskan radio station refused to air them.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• Car dealers, Dwyer said, would not be able to lie or be deceptive about cost and financing terms.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2024
• Then again, the whole movie is designed as a (deceptive) downward spiral.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2024
• True to crypto’s form, even that ad was somewhat deceptive.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2023
• The idea was to trap once, then retreat into their base man-to-man against the Princeton offense’s deceptive array of back cuts, post rubs and slipped screens.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
• In both cases, the FTC relied on a law against unfair or deceptive practices.
  — Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
• The shape and the four-color design do look basic, but the simplicity is deceptive.
  — WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
• While Biden’s approval has been mired in the low 40s, his job ratings turned out to be a deceptive election barometer.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
• And so along with the European image of the shape-shifting and deceptive Jew came the companion image of the Jew as farseeing and noble sage.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The criminal trial in Chicago is the third in two years to focus on a style of deceptive trading known as spoofing.
  — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 8 July 2022
• His size and deceptive speed have Altenberg dreaming of ways to take advantage of his strengths this season.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• Consumer advocates have long railed against the deceptive practice of tacking on the hidden resort fees at the last-minute.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2023
• But that's deceptive, because gasoline prices dropped 10.6 percent; other prices went up across the board.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 25 Sep. 2022
• Marten says that the center believes that many other CPCs go too far with deceptive marketing and ads.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• Authorities said the area is known for its deceptive terrain, but that there is a lack of respect for nature.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 28 May 2024
• But plug-in hybrid vehicles — with one cord that goes into the wall socket and a longer cord connecting to the gas pump — can be deceptive as well.
  — Sue Saunders, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
• The state hopes to compel ExxonMobil to end its deceptive practices, and to secure an abatement fund and civil penalties for the harm.
  — Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2024
• The truth is, these types of deceptive emails aren't really coming from those addresses.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
• The Supreme Court ruling is one of the strictest in a recent spate of measures addressing deceptive condom use, as courts try to define consent.
  — New York Times, 29 July 2022
• However, the gift-buying frenzy of Black Friday may be a bit deceptive.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The polygraph did not go well, Andrew said — the results suggested he was being deceptive.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Lions are a deceptive 3-6 under second-year coach Dan Campbell.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 20 Nov. 2022
• Taking on a Network Meta’s failure to stop deceptive ads about government programs has forced some state and local officials to step in.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024