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Adjective deceptive has 2 senses
- deceptive, delusory - causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
Antonym: real (indirect, via unreal)
- deceptive, misleading - tending 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"
Antonyms: honest, honorable (indirect, via dishonest)
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