Definition of Deceptive

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Definition of Deceptive
	Deceptive Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. Related Definitions: Appearance, As, Countenance, Deceive, Deceptive, False, Having, Impress, Mislead, Or, Power, Tending, To, With

Deceptive Quotations

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Neil LaBute

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
Paul Begala

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
Lucinda Williams

Deceptive Translations

deceptive in Latin is falsus
deceptive in Norwegian is villedende

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