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What does deceptive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Misleading, likely or attempting to deceive.
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The hard, smooth surface of windslab is very deceptive, avalanches of such snow are common and have been responsible for many fatal accidents.
Appearances are deceptive and this maxim gets the full treatment at this point.
Today it announced the start of legal action alleging misleading and deceptive conduct.
The Whitehall whisperers were caught out by the deceptive intimacy of e-mail.
Singles are one of the most deceptive pieces of redundancy every created in music.
Air bubbles seem to float just before your eyes, the planes of perspective are miraculously separated, and the layering is remarkably deceptive.

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