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deceptively

/dih-sep-tiv/US // dɪˈsɛp tɪv //UK // (dɪˈsɛptɪv) //

欺骗性地,欺骗性的,欺诈性地,欺骗性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
    • : perceptually misleading: It looks like a curved line, but it's deceptive.

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Examples

  • Later stories showed how TurboTax uses deceptive design and misleading ads to get people to pay to file their taxes, even when they are eligible to file for free.

  • Hopkins’s allegations, without his name, were first aired last week by Project Veritas, an organization that uses deceptive tactics to expose what it says is bias and corruption in the mainstream media.

  • This deceptive and convenient electoral system was manufactured several years after the triumph of the 1959 revolution and allowed the same man to govern for 49 years.

  • If and when Faraday Future hits public markets, it will bear a huge legacy of mismanagement and alleged deceptive behavior by its founder, Jia Yueting.

  • Yet the apparent simplicity of the olfactory system soon proved deceptive.

  • That Snapchat deceptively told its users that the sender would be notified if a recipient took a screenshot of a snap.

  • Ernst won her race for Montgomery County auditor, a deceptively powerful position in local Hawkeye State politics, in 2005.

  • She is a woman with strong, provocative, and deceptively intuitive opinions.

  • Watercolors are strikingly identical and the charcoal works, done with color pencil, are deceptively perfect.

  • Like a lot of great bookstores, on the outside, Green Apple is deceptively simple, humble, even misleading.

  • He had come away in the sour mood of a thirsty man who finds an alkali spring sparkling deceptively under a rock.

  • If the materialist use the words "right" and "obligation," he does it deceptively, and means only compulsion and power.

  • He watched Harrington make a deceptively pointless-looking move.

  • A small, clear stream flowed below it to the left, so deceptively clear that it reflected the hillside in all its natural tints.

  • He was not hurrying, but his short wolf-trot ate up ground in deceptively quick time.